Marched north from Staunton then northwest to McDowell, twenty miles away. Cj: 5th Florida Infantry Regiment This first bunting pattern Army of Northern Virginia battle flag measures 47 inches square and was issued in early summer 1862. Continued through Strasburg and a few miles south of town to rejoin Jacksons main force, escaping the Union trap. Marched 42 miles south through Strasburg to Mount Jackson. To honor his memory, Jacksons former unit was officially designated the Stonewall Brigade, the only brigade in Confederate service to have an officially recognized nickname. Company C Tenth Legion Minute Men, Woodstock, Shenandoah Co., VA, John Gatewood Moved to Richmond for a rest break and went into camp at Glenwood, a farm owned by Hugh While about three miles out of Richmond on the Mechanicsville Turnpike. The regiment was mustered into Federal service on September 16, 1861, at St. Albans, Vermont. The brigade marched to Bunker Hill to block the Winchester-Martinsburg Road. This Chart shows more examples of the hundreds of different Unit flags used by the Southern Armies during the Civil War. The army boarded trains at Meechums River Station and returned to Staunton in the Valley. 6th Kentucky Infantry38th Alabama Infantry4th Mississippi Infantry After taking all day to cover only six miles, the men bivouacked four miles from Bath without food or shelter. The materials used were dress silk bolts purchased from Richmond area merchants in bulk. Later the 5th participated in the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor, then was active in Early's Shenandoah Valley operations and around Appomattox. The brigade left Camp Paxton and marched to Culpeper. Baylor. List of battleships of the United States Navy, Articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government, Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia. The exterior borders of the flags were yellow. The battle flag adopted in late 1861 for Confederate troops in the Virginia theater was destined to gain fame as the most recognizable symbol of the Southern cause. While researching the role of the Stonewall Brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg, readers will encounter three separate claims of flags belonging to the brigade being captured during the fighting. On the 30th the morning was quiet, but in the afternoon three heavy Federal attacks were driven back. This advance surrounded roughly fifty Confederates and resulted in the capture of both a brigade flag and a regimental banner.5 Godard does not make any claims that the flags belonged to the Stonewall Brigade, but they are certainly the same flags discussed by Geary and Slocum. It fought in the Stonewall Brigade, mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia . Jeffry D. Wert, in his excellent dual history of the Stonewall Brigade and the Iron Brigade, wrote that after the failure of the final Confederate assault on Culps Hill, the Fourteenth Connecticut rushed forward in a counterattack as the Confederates tried to withdraw. The other four colors captured by the Fourteenth Connecticut belonged to Tennessee and North Carolina units of Pettigrews Division who participated in the assault.12 If the flag captured by the Fourteenth indeed belonged to a Virginia regiment, it was more likely one of Picketts Virginia regiments, rather than the Stonewall Brigade. The fighting started at first light. Roberts On July 2 the 2d suffered 6 wounded, but no KIAs. We are a progressive unit portraying the common soldier in the Stonewall Brigade; Army of Northern Virginia. A third attack went forward around noon which broke through the first line of Federal positions before falling back with heavy casualties. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong. Out of the 345 men engaged the regiment lost 14 men killed, 33 wounded and 11 missing. The regiment was in reserve during the battle, which was fought in a tremendous thunderstorm. The brigade aided in the repulse of a Union attack according to the report of Col. Nadenbousch (commanding the 2d at Gettysburg). d.write('