First Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry: - Joint Resolution No. 16, adopted by the West Virginia Legislature February 27th, 1864, required Governor Boreman to procure and present to the First Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry a flag with the names of the battlefields upon which it had been engaged, and the dates thereof, inscribed thereon; viz:

Bloonery Gap, Va., February 13th, 1862;
Winchester, Va., March 28th, 1862;
McDowell, Va., May 8th, 1862;
Cross Keys, Va., June 8th, 1862;
Port Republic, Va., June 8th and 9th, 1862;
Ceder Mountain, Md., Sept 16th, 1862;
Antietam, Md., Sept. 17th, 1862;
Fredericksburg, Va., December 13th, 1862;
Chancellorsville, Va., May 3d, 1863;
Hanover, Pa., June 30th, 1863;
Hunterstown, Pa., July 2d, 1863;
Gettysburg, Pa., July 3d, 1863;
Monterey Springs, Pa., July 4th, 1863;
Hagerstown, Md., July 6th, 1863;
Brandy Station, Va., Sept. 17th, and October 12th 1863;
Morton's Ford, Va., September 18th and 19th, 1863;
Griffinsburg, Va., October 12th, 1863;
Stephensburg, Va., November 9th, 1863;

and the cost be paid out of any money in the Treasury appropriated for the defense of the State.