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Baltimore and sent to Company A. Theywere dear to every member of tha company,havimr been carried by the regiment inthe Gettysburg campaign and other battles.raidIt may be lnmgined with what feelingssuch a charge was accepted. At first withpride and love; afterward with tender reverence for the dead those flags have covered—for the memtrlee lurking within their silken folds. Shortly after they came Into my possession the flags were requested to drape the coffin of Gen. Charles Winder, who was burled near Richmond.Again, during the last year of the war, they were asked for a similar sad office.The body of old Oeaerai Winder lay in state in Columbia. S. C., and our beloved flags, the handiwork of his own people,covered him.A few days after General Winder's burial General Sherman advanced uponColumbia—the rapldUy of movements apparent in thickly falling shells. We were advised to seek safer quarters, and In such haste was our departure effected that no time could be wasted packing even clothes. The flags, however, could never be leftto fall Into the hands of the enemy. Hastily sewed up, they were pinned on as an underskirt and worn out of Columbia to Charlotte, N. C. 81nce I married a member of the company, they have never been out of my possession until Intrusted, one of them to the Confederate Soldiers' Home, at Plkes-ville, and the other to the 8tate Houee at Annapolis.THE CAVALRY BAX\ER.The battle flag of the First MarylandCavalry was the last Confederate flag towave above the fighting men wearing- thegray uniform. mK W. W. Goldsborough,in his work, The Maryland Line In theConfederate Army, tells thus of the troop's last and successful charge:In this last charge—the laat blow struck by the Army of Northern Virginia—while still pushing the enemy vigorously, the battalion was met by an officer carrying a flag of trues, who suddenly made his appearance from the right of the road. The fight Instantly ceased and the officer was asked his business. He replied that General Lee wae about to surrender; that articles of capitulation were being prepared that hostilities bad ceased, and ended by demanding that the cavalry In front should come in and lay down their arms as being part of General Lee's army and Included In the terms. General Munford called a council of war of all his officers • • • It was determined not to surrender, being clearly not subject to the treaty between
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Baltimore Sun
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Sun, Nov 10, 1907
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