go back 118 years and we are please to have them on long-term display for all to This flag measured 4 feet on its hoist by 6 feet on its fly. Betsy Ross Flag This is the flag design that legend says was created by Betsy Ross for George Washington. The Flag of The 1st was a Red Field with a Blue Upper Left Canton. The companies (with original commanders) were: It fought at the Battle of First Bull Run (First Manassas) in a brigade under James Longstreet and in August totaled 570 men. In short, there is strong reason to believe that the actual Continental Navy Jack, like the Colonial Merchant Ensign, was simply a red and white striped flag with no other adornment. Although they had not officially declared their independence, a fight for control of the hills became necessary. The flag was a version of the Gadsden Flag created earlier in the year by South Carolina representative to Congress, Christopher Gadsden, but with Patrick Henry's famous words "Liberty or Death" added on the sides. Second Bunting Issue, 1862 But John Trumbull, whose paintings of Revolutionary War scenes are quite famous, talked to eye-witnesses and his subsequent painting depicting the battle displayed the Continental flag as shown here. During April, 1862, when the regiment was reorganized, it contained only six companies. Following the adoption of the Stars and Bars as the national flag of the Confederate States, many military units on both regimental and company levels, quickly adopted it for use as a battle flag. On August 16, 1777, the Green Mountain Boys fought under General Stark at the Battle of Bennington. At the Winchester re-arrangement January 1, 1783, it was decided that the Virginia soldiers whose terms had not run out were more than sufficient to make one regiment, so a 2d was formed to be under a major-commandant, consisting of two . Here in Belle Isle's Dreary Prison. Later the unit was involved in the capture of Plymouth, the conflicts at Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor, the Siege of Petersburg south and north of the James River, and the Appomattox Campaign. This flag was carried by Colonel William Moultries South Carolina Militia on Sullivan Island in Charleston Harbor on June 28, 1776. According to one account, these flags were later turned in so that their bunting could be recycled into other flags. A flag of nine red and white vertical stripes known as the Rebellious Stripes was flown from this pole. New York: Chs. To the contrary, the cavalry flags that do survive, including one silk battle flag from the issue of 13 December 1861 (6th Virginia Cavalry- with a YELLOW pole sleeve), one orange bordered 2nd issue bunting battle flag (7th Virginia Cavalry), and a host of cavalry battle flags conforming to the 3rd bunting issue are all basically 48 square.