Editor Times-Dispatch:
Sir—Referring to a statement in a recent issue of your paper, that the battleflag of the 13th Virginia Cavalry, captured at Poolesville, Md., in 1862, had been returned to the State, I beg to state that the 13th Virginia Cavalry didn't participate in the Maryland campaign in 1862; that its fine service with the army of Northern Virginia proper, was in the fall after that campaign.
The companies for most part doing separate duty between Petersburg and Norfolk, a battalion, doing duty on James river, as a body. This text is part of:
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Richmond, VA. 1906.
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