Historical Marker
Walker's Brigade
Historical marker location:
Cumberland Township, Pennsylvania
( Marker is on East Confederate Avenue, on the left when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 1910
Johnson's Division - Ewell's Corps. 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.