The New York State Battle Flag Collection
includes two silk general guide flags carried by the 134th Regiment NY
Volunteer Infantry. Both flags, in the US National pattern, include 34
embroidered white stars in six horizontal rows (6-6-5-5-6-6) and the
regiment's numeric designation with state affiliation, "N.Y.V.," embroidered
in yellow with shadow effects. On May 2, 1863, at the battle of Chancellorsville,
the Confederates captured the two guide flags. The captor later presented
the guide flags to a medical doctor in Lexington, Virginia. The doctor
retained the flags until late 1865 when he surrendered them to Major
General N.M Curtis, Commander of the Southwest District of Virginia.
General Curtis forwarded the two guide flags to General William Irvine,
The Adjutant General, State of New York, who deposited them in the Battle
Flag Collection on December 18,
1865. |
