Greg
... In the 1st WV Cav. unit history they only briefly reported "supporting the Sixth Corp" at Sailors Creek... Oddly in the regimental history it doesn't mention the capture of this particular flag.... But plenty of babble about Tom Custer plucking two flags...

Marshalls Cross roads is only a few hundred yards up from the Hillsman Farm... unlike the third segment of that battle at Lockett Farm-Double Bridges that was a couple miles west of there.

In the original Francis Cunningham MOH citation (awarded May 1865) it states capture of flag of the 12th Va Inf...

Cunningham's own account:

It was on the afternoon of April 6th that we again came up with them in a strong position on the thickly wooded banks of Sailor's Creek. They were behind rude fortifications and the thick growth of underbrush kept their numbers concealed from us. We didn't know how many rebels there were in those ditches until we charged. Then we got the information in the most convincing manner all along our line. I was one the men lowered to terra firma swiftly, my fine black charger being killed under me. We were repulsed, and as we fell back over logs and inter-leaving vines, the rebel volleys continued thinning out the ranks. Men and beasts were floundering together in the dense thicket.
"I groped about with my eyes blinded with the smoke and fortunately bumped squarely into a phlegmatic mule with a Confederate saddle on. He was taking in the scenery in the most nonchalant manner and modifying the ennui of the situation by actually grazing there in that screaming pandemonium of exploding shells.
"His saddle was slippery with the life-blood of some luckless 'reb' who had fallen beneath one of our scattering volleys. There wasn't much time to talk the thing over with the mule. I mounted him and hurried back through the woods to the clearing where our forces were rallying.
"In going back through the woods I made several observations pertinent to the disposition and qualifications of that mule. Of all his shining attainments two stood out as conspicuously as his ears. He could run very fast and I think he must have broken his own record while I rode him.
He could jump like a steeplechaser and he seemed rather to prefer taking a four-foot stump to passing around it. "Just as I reached the rallying troops the bugle sounded 'Charge' again and back we went at those breastworks over stumps and through drooping branches. It took my mule just about four jumps to show that in an obstacle race he could outclass all others. He laid back his ears and frisked over logs and flattened out like a jackrabbit, when he had a chance to sprint. Soon I was ahead, far ahead of the rest of the boys. That mule never even stopped when he came to the breastworks. He switched his tail and sailed right over among the rebs, landing near a rebel color-bearer of the Twelfth Virginia Infantry.
"About all that I can remember of what followed was that the mule and I went after him. The color-bearer was a big brawny chap and he put up a game fight. But that mule had some new side steps and posterior upper-cuts that put the reb out of the game.
"A sabre slash across the right arm made him drop his colors and I grabbed them before they touched the ground."

The description given definitely sounds like the action at Marshalls Cross Roads... however the mention of the thickly wooded banks along Sailors Creek which is at the bottom of the hill just South of the Hillsman House... Between the Hillsman House and the cross roads.... strange...

I know both Calkins and Eanes very well... See Calkins near weekly.... Have done programs there at SCk for several decades... Used his extensive personal library a number of times in the past when he was still at Petersburg NPS... same library mass now thankfully residing at SCk... I only reside about 20 minutes from there so familiar with the turf and area pretty good. Im also the event coordinator for the forthcoming 150th Sailors Creek next year... Since at the reins for this one Ive included mandate that all flags used have to be correct to date-time-place..... has always been a pet-peeve to see incorrect flags being carried at events...