. Military history and reminiscences of the Thirteenth regiment of Illinois volunteer infantry in the civil war in the United States,1861-65 . 1i I j ii nr* CHAPTER XXI. THE CONFUSION OF THE BATTLE-FLAGS.—THE RETREAT NOTFOLLOWED.—ARKANSAS POST EXPEDITION.—THIS TIMEWE ARE THE N MRS. LIVERMORES My Story ofthe War, the author gives a short his-I tory of about fifty battle-flags ; and on pageHjjP 329 are pictured six battle-flags, beautifully col-ored and artistically grouped. The regimentsand batteries to which these precious, relics be-longed, were : First Minnesota Artillery, Second M
. Military history and reminiscences of the Thirteenth regiment of Illinois volunteer infantry in the civil war in the United States,1861-65 . 1i I j ii nr* CHAPTER XXI. THE CONFUSION OF THE BATTLE-FLAGS.—THE RETREAT NOTFOLLOWED.—ARKANSAS POST EXPEDITION.—THIS TIMEWE ARE THE N MRS. LIVERMORES My Story ofthe War, the author gives a short his-I tory of about fifty battle-flags ; and on pageHjjP 329 are pictured six battle-flags, beautifully col-ored and artistically grouped. The regimentsand batteries to which these precious, relics be-longed, were : First Minnesota Artillery, Second Michigan Infantry,Seventh New York Heavy Artillery, Twenty fourth MichiganInfantry, Eighth Missouri Infantry, Thirteenth IllinoisInfantry. The latter is the National colors, mistakenly supposed bymany, to be the stand captured by the enemy at ChickasawBayou ; but was really the successor of that flag. The flagrepresented by the picture, was borne on the field of RinggoldGap, Georgia, by Color-Sergeant Patrick Riley, of CompanyK, who was there shot through the breast, and fell in such amanner as to be enveloped by the flag, which thus became hiswinding-sheet, and still has the stains of Sergeant Rileys life-blood, which are shown by the picture. The presence of the blood-stained
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