"Flags in Jackson's Division" Topic

I'm trying to track down information on the flags used by Jackson's division (Winder-Taliaferro-Jones' div) in the late summer campaigns of '62. I know that the Stonewall Brigade received 2nd pattern Battle flags (orange border) in early August, 1862. Also, I believe Starke's Louisiana brigade carried 2nd pattern flags as well and that a couple rookie Alabama regiments still had first national flags. I was wondering if anybody else had some info on other flags that were used at this time. Maybe more first nationals, Virginia state flags, or silk patterns?

You are right that the Stonewall and Louisiana brigades were issued 2nd Bunting flags. The former were unmarked whereas the latter probably had the unit designation added to them.

In Jones' Brigade the 21st Va had a First National later captured at Chancellorsville. This flag had a canton with 7 white stars in a circle around a larger 8th star. The 42nd and 48th Va probably each carried an FN. I don't know what the 1st Va Btn carried.

The 47th Ala of Taliferro's Brigade lost a FN at Sharpsburg.

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The 48th Ala may also have used an FN but it arrived in Virginia late enough that it might have been issued one of the first 3rd Buntings. The 10th Va may have carried a 1st bunting, but it is more likely that they were using a Virginia state flag. The 23rd and 37th Va both most likely had an FN.

That is fantastic, thank you very much! I noticed your comprehensive analysis of flags in Jackson's Valley army a while back and was hoping you'd respond to my topic. Thanks again.

Glad to help. The flags carried by Jackson's (and his successors) Division are hard to pin down. The division did not get a regular issue of ANV pattern flags until after Gettysburg. Thus a lot of what I have is pieced together from various sources with a certain amount of guesswork.

I recently read "Conquering the Valley" by Robert K. Krick. In it he quotes a boy in the 6th Louisiana's letter to his girlfriend, at Charlottesville, asking her to make the regiment a new battle flag. He complained that the government-issued thin silk flags "blow into shreds and tatters in a week," and suggested she use bunting. It doesn't say whether she ever actually made them a flag. I don't know what type the government-issue flag was that he was complaining about, but I thought it was interesting what it said about their durability.