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15th Alabama Infantry Regiment Flag
| 15th Alabama Infantry Regimental Flag |
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| 15th Alabama Regiment Flag |
According to tradition, this flag was presented to the regiment (Col. James Cantey accepting) at Ft. Mitchell in the summer
of 1861, by Miss Mary Chambers of Russell County. While the regiment probably did receive a flag at that time, this flag could
not have been issued any earlier than November 1861.1
This flag was among those manufactured by three sewing circles in Richmond, Virginia at the request of Confederate Quartermaster
Colin Selph. According to former Colonel A. A. Lowther, 15th Alabama Infantry, this flag was carried by the regiment during
Stonewall Jackson's Valley campaign and fought under at the battles of Winchester, Cross Keys and Port Republic of that campaign.
It was again fought under at Cold Harbor, in the campaign against McClellan below Richmond and at Cedar Run. When the regiment
was issued a new flag, Lowther retained possession of this flag. The flag was presented to the Alabama Department of Archives
and History by Lowther's daughter Miss Virginia Lowther of Macon, Georgia. It was received on March 18, 1927.
Sources:
Biggs, Greg. "Ragged Rags of Rebellion.
The Flags of the Confederacy," an unpublished manuscript, Curator's Files, Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Curator's Object Files, Civil War Flags, Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Woodhead, Henry, editor. Echoes of Glory, Arms and Equipment of the Confederacy.
Time Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia, 1991.
1 Flags of this pattern were issued to regiments in Virginia beginning in November and continuing into December,
1861. This flag is the second type of two designs which were issued at that time.
Source: archives.alabama.gov
Recommended
Reading:
Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates, by Glenn W. LaFantasie. Booklist: This excellent, scholarly biography
deals with a man best known as Joshua Chamberlain's principal opponent on Little Round Top on the second day of the Battle
of Gettysburg. Like his famous opponent, the 15th Alabama Regiment's commander, William C. Oates, knew the art of the infantry
officer. Born when much of his native Alabama
was still frontier, he survived six wounds, including the loss of his right arm. After the war, he was a distinguished and
eventually wealthy lawyer and state politician as well as a thoroughly unreconstructed rebel with a notoriously hot temper.
Continued below…
Yet he made
a scandal at the end of his career when, at a state constitutional convention, he advocated no racial limitations on voting
rights… A valuable addition to the Civil War shelves. About the Author: Glenn W. LaFantasie is the Frockt Family Professor
of Civil War History and the Director of the Center for the Civil War in the West at Western
Kentucky University. He is the bestselling author of Twilight at Little
Round Top. He has also written for several magazines and newspapers, including American History, North & South, MHQ: The
Quarterly Journal of Military History, The New York Times Book Review, America's Civil War, Civil
War Times Illustrated, and The Providence Journal.
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