BIBLE FLAG ID’D TO SURGEON JAMES H. SOUTHALL, 55TH VIRGINIA INFANTRY, WHO WASCAPTURED AT GETTYSBURG

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Item Code: 801-398

This is a great example of a small handmade silk flag that soldiers would carry in their Bibles. This is a secessionist flag with eleven stars, which are made from sequence.

Silk is very frayed and some small sections are missing. Some surface dirt is present. Flag measures 4 ¾” x 3”.

There is a card pinned to the flag which reads, “COMPLIMENTS OF, SURGEON JAMES H. SOUTHALL, 55TH VA REGT, CS, NORFOLK CITY”.

James H. Southall, born in Isle of Wight County, VA in 1841, enlisted on September 20, 1861 as an Assistant Surgeon and was commissioned into Field & Staff 55th Virginia Infantry. On June 25, 1862 he was promoted to Surgeon. He was listed as detailed on July 5, 1863 at Gettysburg, PA where he was left behind to care for the wounded and is listed as a POW. He was then confined at Fort McHenry on July 9, 1863 and was exchanged on November 21, 1863. He was returned on December 2, 1863. He surrendered at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. Following the war he established a medical practice in Arkansas, was a professor at the Arkansas Industrial University in Little Rock. He married and had two daughters. Southall died on July 22, 1901 in Little Rock and is buried there in Oakland Cemetery.

Accompanied by a 50 page file from Fold3.com and other cursory research information.

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