Armistead's Brigade

Historical marker location:

Cumberland Township, Pennsylvania

( Marker is on West Confederate Avenue, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1910

Pickett's Division - Longstreet'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.