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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, chapter 35 (search)
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 38 : the North Anna battles. (search)
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Chapter 42 : batteries Eleven and Twelve and Fort Rice . Battle at Boydton Plank Road . (search)
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Roster of the Nineteenth regiment Massachusetts Volunteers (search)
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, chapter 47 (search)
Appendix.
Return of the captured flag.
The flag of the Nineteenth Massachusetts regiment, which was captured with the command in front of Petersburg in 1864, was returned to the Commonwealth in 1867 under circumstances of peculiar interest.
The story is told in the following letters:
Charlotte, N. C., Nov. 29, 1866. Chas. W. Matthews, Esq.,
Dear Sir:
I send you by express the flag of the Nineteenth Mass. Volunteers, which I told you I had rescued from rebel hands, that they might not have it to boast of.
Though mutilated in its border, its escutcheon is still intact and, like the Union, can be re-constructed but not on Rebel principles nor with Rebel material.
Please present it to its regiment or to its State and if its esprit du corps is gratified in acquiring it, I shall feel that I am amply rewarded for the diplomacy I have exercised in seeking to transfer it to the gallant troops who rallied under it to defend the Union they loved not more than did
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