"While going through all of the buildings and offices on the campus of Widener University (formerly PA Military College) to see what I could find. While looking around our Alumni house, I noticed that there was a flag, folded up into a frame, hanging on the wall in their lunch room. So I naturally confiscated it for the museum. I didn't realize at that time that it was a Civil War 1st National Pattern Confederate Flag. When I removed it from the frame, I saw that it had holes in it and blood on it (probably why it was folded up into a frame). There was a 3x5 card, between the glass and the flag, with the following" information: "Battle-scarred Union [sic] flag captured by Confederate soldiers at Falmouth, Va., 1863 and returned after the war. Gift of Morris F. Allcutt 10th and Woodside Ave. Upland, Pa. July 16, 1931"

I didn't really know how to proceed with the research, so I tried something that is a hobby of mine - genealogy - to see if Morris was related to anyone that served in the Civil War. I had already looked to see if I could find him on the census and found his family, living in Lower Chichester, Delaware County, in 1860. Morris was three years old and his parents are William and Sarah Alcutt (I've found his last name spelled several different ways during the course of my research). I have found a William Alcott with the 186th Pennsylvania Regiment but I don't know if he's Morris' father. Morris, who died in 1939, was married to Jane Hepworth. Both her father, Luke, and her uncle, Richard Hepworth, served in the Civil War. I have their records and pension applications, and it doesn't tell me anything. Also, I've found a David Allcutt and a John Allcutt John. Allcutt served with the 1st Pennsylvania Reserves/30th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers which captured a battle flag at or near Gettysburg."