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hat effect, which was found by Captain Morton, when he took the flags out of their care for exhibition in the Capitol.
The interesting local feature about the flag is that it was Captain E. E. Bouldin's regimental flag, and he says it was not captured, but picked up after the color-bearer, James Wilson, was killed and the regiment left the field.
There was no capture at all. This statement was vouched for by two letters produced by Captain Morton, one to him by Sgt., J. Scott Moore, of Lexington, Va., and the other by W. L. Moffett, of Augusta County, Va., in a very interesting letter to Captain Bouldin, which was referred to by the speaker and is reproduced here:
Steels' Tavern, Augusta Co., Va. April 6th, 1899. Captain E. E. Bouldin, Co. B., 14th Va. Cavalry.
Dear Sir,—I note your letter in the Rockbridge News of recent date, asking members of the 14th Va. Cavalry, to write you at Danville what they remember of the last charge of the 14th at Appomattox C. H.
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es and several battalions of heavy artillery.
Robert Edward Lee, major-general, commanding Virginia State forces 1861; brigadier-general, C. S. A., May 14, 1861; general, C. S. A, June 14, 1861; general-in-chief, January 31, 1865; died at Lexington, Va., October 12, 1870.
Commands—In command of operations in Trans-Alleghany Department, 1861; in charge of defenses on coast of South Carolina and Georgia, 1861-1862; commanding Army of Northern Virginia, June, 1862; assigned to duty at Richmo lieutenant-colonel.
William Nelson Pendleton, captain Rockbridge Battery, corps of artillery, C. S. A., July 19, 1861; colonel and chief of artillery, A. N. Va., July 21, 1861, to April 9, 1862; brigadiergen-eral, March 26, 1862; died at Lexington, Va., January 15, 1883.
George Edward Pickett, major corps of artillery, March 6, 1861; * * * brigadier-general, January 14, 1862; major-general, October 10, 1862; died at Norfolk, Va., July 30, 1875.
Commands—Brigade composed of Eighth, Eig