Second Army Corps

Historical marker location:

Cumberland Township, Pennsylvania

( Marker is at the intersection of North Confederate Avenue and Mummasburg Road, on the left when traveling north on North Confederate Avenue.)

Marker installed: 1907

Army of Northern Virginia.

The first recorded U.S. flag-raising on foreign soil occurred in 1777, when the Stars and Stripes were flown during a naval battle off the coast of Quiberon Bay, France, commanded by Pennsylvania native John Paul Jones.