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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), An incident of Stonewall Jackson's Valley campaign-capture of a flag by Maryland Confederates. (search)
An incident of Stonewall Jackson's Valley campaign-capture of a flag by Maryland Confederates. Compiled from original data by S. Z. Ammen. During the retreat toward Winchester of the portion of Bank's army driven from Front Royal by a detachment of Jackson's advancing forces, consisting principally of the First Maryland Infantry and Wheat's Louisiana Battalion, on May 23d, 1862, there occurred in front of the stone house of Mr. Joshua A. McKay, on the Winchester pike, about five miles north of Front Royal, a spirited combat between Confederates and Federals, which was witnessed by Miss Nannie A. McKay, and of which that young lady (now Mrs. John R. Rust), until recently possessed an interesting memorial in the shape of a captured Federal flag. The series of events that led to its capture, and its subsequent history, are of such interest as to merit record. Late in the evening of the 23d, after the brush at Front Royal, a squad of some twenty of the retreating Federal First M