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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: January 24, 2009
Caption: 126th New York Regimental Flag
Additional Description: The regimental flag (photo on the right side of the marker)is preserved in one of the downtown museum exhibits at Harpers Ferry:
The raw recruits of the 126th New York Volunteers surrendered their regimental flag at Harpers Ferry on September 15, 1862. The Confederate victors kept the flag as a trophy of war in Richmond, Virginia, until the city fell in 1865. Then the United States War Department stored the flag in Washington, D.C., until 1879, when Colonel Ephraim Whitaker returned the flag to New York for a reunion of the veterans from the 126th.
Submitted: May 16, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p63647
File Size: 1.208 Megabytes

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