Twenty-eighth Virginia Infantry Regimental Battle Flag
The Army of Northern Virginia Confederate battle flag of the Twenty-eighth Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Captured by Private Marshall Sherman of St. Paul while serving with the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company C, during Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863.
Bibliography
Accession file #6421
3D Objects Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul
Description: Articles, reports, correspondence, and internal documentation related to the Twenty-eighth Virginia battle flag, spanning roughly from 1895 to the present.
“Amid Flying Shot and Shell.” St. Paul Pioneer Press, July 21, 1895.
“A Banner Year.” St. Paul Pioneer Press, June 19, 1998.
“Battle Flags Moved to the New Capitol.” Minneapolis Tribune, June 15, 1905.
https://www.mnhs.org/newspapers/lccn/sn83016771/1905-06-15/ed-1/seq-7
“The Battle Flags of Minnesota” (archived). Minnesota Historical Society, 2008.
https://mnhs.gitlab.io/archive/the-battle-flags-of-minnesota-collections/collections.mnhs.org/battleflags/10001562.html
Carley, Kenneth. Minnesota in the Civil War: An Illustrated History. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2000.
Coski, John M. The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
Hill, Patrick M. “Colors of Valor: The 28th Virginia Regiment’s Flag in Minnesota.” Minnesota History, 57, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 58–73.
https://storage.googleapis.com/mnhs-org-support/mn_history_articles/57/v57i02p058-073.pdf
“Minnesota’s Battle Flags.” St. Paul Globe, May 17, 1896.
https://newspapers.mnhs.org/jsp/viewer.jsp?doc_id=mnhi0031/1HMADF59/96051701&page_name=9
“Panorama of the Great Battle to be on Exhibition To-day—Actual Portraits Shown.” St. Paul Daily Globe, December 20, 1886.
https://www.mnhs.org/newspapers/lccn/sn90059522/1886-12-20/ed-1/seq-2
US Congress, House. Joint Resolution to return to the proper authorities certain Union and Confederate battle flags. H. J. R. 217. 58th Cong., 3rd sess. Approved February 28, 1905.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/llsalvol.llsal_033/?sp=1371&r=-0.204,0.113,1.634,0.76,0
US Congress, Senate. An act relating to the repair, restoration, and preservation of regimental battle flags, standards, and guidons of military organizations of the state- of Minnesota and the United States of America. S. F. 1097. 88th Cong., 1st sess. Approved May 13, 1963.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1963/0/Session+Law/Chapter/665/pdf
“Ventura Won't Give Flag Back To Virginia.” Chicago Tribune, February 29, 2000. https://archive.ph/20211230152505/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-02-29-0002290214-story.html
Chronology
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1864
1867
1886
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1961
1963
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Bibliography
Accession file #6421
3D Objects Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul
Description: Articles, reports, correspondence, and internal documentation related to the Twenty-eighth Virginia battle flag, spanning roughly from 1895 to the present.
“Amid Flying Shot and Shell.” St. Paul Pioneer Press, July 21, 1895.
“A Banner Year.” St. Paul Pioneer Press, June 19, 1998.
“Battle Flags Moved to the New Capitol.” Minneapolis Tribune, June 15, 1905.
https://www.mnhs.org/newspapers/lccn/sn83016771/1905-06-15/ed-1/seq-7
“The Battle Flags of Minnesota” (archived). Minnesota Historical Society, 2008.
https://mnhs.gitlab.io/archive/the-battle-flags-of-minnesota-collections/collections.mnhs.org/battleflags/10001562.html
Carley, Kenneth. Minnesota in the Civil War: An Illustrated History. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2000.
Coski, John M. The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
Hill, Patrick M. “Colors of Valor: The 28th Virginia Regiment’s Flag in Minnesota.” Minnesota History, 57, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 58–73.
https://storage.googleapis.com/mnhs-org-support/mn_history_articles/57/v57i02p058-073.pdf
“Minnesota’s Battle Flags.” St. Paul Globe, May 17, 1896.
https://newspapers.mnhs.org/jsp/viewer.jsp?doc_id=mnhi0031/1HMADF59/96051701&page_name=9
“Panorama of the Great Battle to be on Exhibition To-day—Actual Portraits Shown.” St. Paul Daily Globe, December 20, 1886.
https://www.mnhs.org/newspapers/lccn/sn90059522/1886-12-20/ed-1/seq-2
US Congress, House. Joint Resolution to return to the proper authorities certain Union and Confederate battle flags. H. J. R. 217. 58th Cong., 3rd sess. Approved February 28, 1905.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/llsalvol.llsal_033/?sp=1371&r=-0.204,0.113,1.634,0.76,0
US Congress, Senate. An act relating to the repair, restoration, and preservation of regimental battle flags, standards, and guidons of military organizations of the state- of Minnesota and the United States of America. S. F. 1097. 88th Cong., 1st sess. Approved May 13, 1963.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/laws/1963/0/Session+Law/Chapter/665/pdf
“Ventura Won't Give Flag Back To Virginia.” Chicago Tribune, February 29, 2000. https://archive.ph/20211230152505/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-02-29-0002290214-story.html