Show old confederate flag presented to museum TUR THE famous confederate battle flag of the first virginia regiment made by the women of RIch richmond from their silk dresses and which led the noted command from bull run kun to gettysburg tys burg came to the confederate museum and now rests with other southern trophies the museum Is in the old white house of the confederacy the bloodstained blood stained a and nol battle torn banner saw its last service in picketts charge at gettysburg when the southern troops swept up the slopes of cemetery hill to virtual annihilation preserved by the late col charles T loehr historian and custodian of the first virginia the fla flag was presented to the museum by Ns ls children william A loehr charles E r I 1 loehr sirs mrs oscar I 1 L kent and sirs mrs bernard L dickinson inson colonel loehr as historian described the fate of the flag on the day of picketts charge in these words the color guard Is dead and tho the color sergeant has lost ills his arm our colonel lies dying on the field the regiment lost men out of about JG acu who went into that charge |