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The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
f a flag. Camp West Point, July 1, 1861. On last Friday, June 28th, the Pamunkey Artillery, stationed here under the command of our most gallant Captain, Robert T. Ellett, was presented with a most beautiful flag by certain ladies of New Kent county, which was upon that day for the first time thrown open to the breeze. Their appeal to us to "receive it as the gift of sister daughters of our common mother, Virginia, and to recognize in it the emblems of our nationality," was clothed in om the bosom of all present a favorable response. They separately replied: "Spotless it is; it will be our duty and pleasure, with the Divine assistance, thus to return it." The flag was to have been presented by Dr. Tazewell Tyler, of New Kent county, but in consequence of being detained at home, Dr. Edward Eppes, a most accomplished gentleman and physician, and our surgeon, presented it in behalf of the ladies in such an appropriate address as to draw forth the favorable comments of all