Letters from Lieutenant Whitfield "Whit" G. Kisling of the 10th Virginia can be found in the Brockenbrough Library at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond. Following is an extract from his letter dated 26 August 1863 from camp on the Rapidan, addressed to a cousin: "We have received a new flag for the regiment. It is emblazoned with the names of nearly all the principal battles that have occurred in this department since the war, beginning with Manassas #1 and ending with Gettysburg. Fourteen in number in all, of which I have been engaged except the first ... our old flag will be sent back to Rockingham where it will be preserved as a ____ of valor of the glorious old 10th. It has some ten or twelve bullet holes in it besides several large rents made by pieces of shell. The staff has alo been struck several times. ..."