Jim Martin
More on the captured flag
Wed Apr 11 14:14:30 2001


This is from the 19thalabama.org (reenactors) site and is attributed to Bob Bradley at ADAH.

"No original battle flag of the 19th Alabama Infantry Regiment has survived to our knowledge. A review of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion (ORs) shows that a flag of the regiment was captured on July 28th, 1864 at the Battle of Ezra Chapel (Lick Skillet Road) by the 48th Illinois Infantry Regiment. Further research discloses that the 48th IL was on the opposite end of the battle line from where the 19th Ala was engaged! Appropriate state authorities in Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois which had units engaged on that part of the line were contacted but they reported no record of any flag of the 19th Ala ever being in their possession. It is, perhaps, a great irony that many of the Confederate battle flags have survived to this day because they fell into the hands of their enemies on the battlefield. However, such does not appear to be the case in this instance."

Jim