Upon the grounds is Crawford's famous equestrian statue of Washington, surrounded by smaller statues of other Revolutionary patriots.
The Confederate Congress was then in session in the Capitol, and also the Legislature of Virginia, a fact indicated by the State flag of Virginia floating from the southern end of the building, and the new flag of the Confederacy from the northern end.

This was the first time I had seen the latter, which had been recently adopted, and I examined it with some interest.

The design was exceedingly plain.

Simply a white banner, with a red field in the corner where the blue field with stars is in ours.
The two blue stripes were drawn diagonally across this field in the shape of a letter X, and in these were thirteen white stars, corresponding to the number of States claimed to be in the Confederacy.
The battle-flag was simply the red field.

My examination of all this was necessarily very brief.