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Ohio History Connection
Description: United States flag is made of wool and has 34 white stars on a blue canton along with seven red and six white stripes. In June 1863 the 110th and 122nd OVI under the command of Colonel Joseph Warren Keifer were encamped around a fort on the heights west of Winchester, Virginia. Outnumbered by the Confederates who were marching toward Pennsylvania, the Union regiments retreated the night of June 15, leaving the flag flying to fool the Confederates. The next day the Confederates captured the fort and boxed the flag to send to Richmond as a trophy. Before the flag left Winchester, a Union sympathizer, Annie Jackson, took the flag and hid it. She gave it to Joseph Warren Keifer January 7, 1922. Joseph Warren Keifer (1836-1932) served as a Union general during the Civil War in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He later served in Congress and as Speaker of the House during the 47th Congress. Joseph Warren Keifer of Springfield, Ohio, donated this flag in 1922. The donor received the flag from Annie Jackson on January 7, 1922. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65296_001
Subjects: Civil War 1861-1865; Flags--Ohio, Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Ohio History Connection