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Title	Black Horse Cavalry Battle Flag, 13 stars
Subject	ceremonial artifact communication artifact textile---cotton ----wool Civil War, 1861-1865 Chancellorsville, Battle of 4th Virginia Cavalry Black Horse Cavalry
Time Period	1860s
Place	Chancellorsville, Virginia
Description	The now tattered Stars and Stripes has 13 stars organized in rows of 5-3-5. Thirteen star flags were carried by soldiers in both the Mexican War (1846-48) and the Civil War (1861-65) in remembrance of America's past colonial struggle for freedom. This wool battle flag was captured at Chancellorsville (May 1863) by the 4th Virginia Cavalry, also known as the Black Horse Cavalry. Though it originated as a militia in 1859, the Black Horse Cavalry mustered in Fauquier County, Virginia, and reportedly were escorts to General Stonewall Jackson. One of the officers of the 4th Virginia Cavalry gave the flag to a friend. Years later this lady friend married a Southern gentleman named Isaac Solomon. Years after the wedding, Solomon sold his plantation to Mr. Nelson Guenther. When they came across this flag in the household inventory Mr. Solomon said, "Guenther, you are a good Yankee, and I am going to give you this flag, with Mrs. Solomon's consent." [above narrated by Solomon] As part of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, the Confederate Calvary was commanded by Major General J.E.B. Stuart. (Stuart's corps had only two brigades at Chancellorsville, those of Brigadier Generals Wade Hampton and William E. "Grumble" Jones were detached.)
Date of Original	1863
Source	H18378
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/collections--archives/digital-collections--services/rights--reproduction
Type	StillImage
File Name	index.cpd
Image Height	Not Available
Image Width	Not Available
Format	picture; historical object; flag
Extent	145 x 95 cm

Title	H18378_001
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/collections--archives/digital-collections--services/rights--reproduction
Type	StillImage
File Name	H18378_001.tif
Image Height	1602
Image Width	996
File Size	445.899 KB
Format	picture

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