The next action of the legislature regarding the Coat-of-Arms or Great Seal of the State was that contained in Joint Resolution .No. 7, adopted January, 08, 1864, which directed that it be placed on the State Flag authorized to be presented to the Fourth Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. There after it was placed on the State Flags and thus in 1864, a new Flag with a new Coat- of-Arms was seen in the Volunteer armies of the United States. The work of printing the Coat-of-Arms on these State Flags was done in colors. Imagine a flag of blue silk 6x6 feet bordered with gold; and this is the State Flag as then used ready to receive legends and inscriptions. Painted on one side of tie was an oval, the diameters being 32 and 34 inches respectively, the longer being the horizontal; its color, used as a background was a soft or whitish gray. - First in the foreground is plowed land of a darkish color resembling a fresh-plowed West Virginia field. Then there was a green sward on which rests the guns covered at point of contact by the Phrygian Cap. The most prominent object in the painting is the rock, which in color nearly resembles the brown stone quarried near Hinton, or, more properly, Cleveland building stone. The ivy vine is, of course, green. The Phrygian Cap is red with a Persian band brown and tan combined. The floating scroll is pink and the letters of the motto there on a reddish brown. The corn is "in silk," that is, roasting ears and is, therefore, green. The sheaf of wheat resting on the plow is golden grain-ripe. The anvil is a dark steel shaded into gray. It rests on a dark block of wood. The sledge thereon is dark,- black,-with light shading.. The handle is the same as that of the Phrygian Cap. The axe. is black with light falling on bit and edges and the handle is the same as the band on the Phrygian Cap. The barrels are brown or rather, in native wood color. The plow handles are of a dark salmon color.
Now as to the two men. They appear as in middle life; both wear black burnside whiskers, otherwise are smoothly shaven, with faces considerably flushed, that of the miner being the darker of the two. As to costume, both wear black slouch hats, the rim of that of the miner being flat or about horizontal, while that of the farmer is tacked or pinned up on the left side-a la General Wayne. The farmer wears the traditional Hunting-Shirt which comes down to his knees and has a cape that reaches to his waist. Around the lower border of the cape and the tail of the coat is a border of red fringe. The coat, or hunting shirt, itself is a butter nut brown with a turn down collar, and tied under his chin is a bow of red, as if a red bandanna 'handkerchief had been passed around under the collar and tied in front so that only the bow is -seen. He wears a black belt, but this is seen only in part in front, the remainder being concealed by the cape of the Hunting- Shirt. His trousers are likewise butternut-brown, but they, like the coat, are shaded in dark folds. He 'wears shoes of a, coarse character and they are black. The miner is without a coat, wears what appears to be an old fashioned brown muslin shirt; it is a yellowish white and has cuffs turned back jus 't as the men of the present generation wore them when they were boys. The collar is also an old-fashioned milled down style, under which passes a black tie which is tied neatly into a well formed bow in front. He wears a crimson vest having six buttons, the lower three being open. His trousers are of a whitish gray material. shaded into dark folds. He, too, wears coarse shoes which are black. Such was the Coat-of-.Arms or Great Seal of the State carried into battle by West Virginia Regiments.