Show old confederate flag presented to museum T THE HE famous confederate battle flag of the first virginia regiment made by the women of from their silk dresses and which led the noted command from bull run 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 st stained and battle torn banner saw its last service in picketts charge at gettysburg when the southern troops swept up op the slopes of cemetery hill to virtual annihilation preserved by the late col charles T loehr historian and custodian of the first virginia the flag was presented to the museum by W Ms children william A loehr charles B E loehr mrs mra oscar I 1 L kent and mrs bernard L dickinson colonel loehr as historian described the fate of the flag on the day of picketts charge 1 in these words the color guard Is dead and the color 01 or sergeant has lost his bis arm our colonel ile lies dying on the field the regiment lost men out of about IGO who went into that charge |