The colors you see up above left the field at Spotsylvania Virginia in the wrong hands. Intense fighting in the 1864 campaign led to the capture of the banner by the 73rd NY Infy. Forty one years later the US War Department returned the flag to the State of Virginia and the Museum of the Confederacy in March of 1905.
The Battle Abbey in Richmond took possession of the flag in the 1940's and in an effort to preserve the flag from further deterioration, ... Read this article | User's blog