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This Second Xational Flag was used jis the headquarters ll.ig ofMaj, Gen. Robert F. Hoke, who commanded troops defending Petersburg, Virginia, until ordered in December 1S64, to Xorth Carolina, where he served until surrendering with Joseph Johnston 's army after Bentonville. Xorth Carolina Museum of History This machinc-scwn Second Xational Flag is the product of the Richmond Clothing Depot and hears the unit designation around the centre star in the canton along with buttle honours, the...
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Thegth South Carolina Cavalry's battle Hag has the evenly spaced stars associated with the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, although it was captured at 'Frevilian Station. South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Museum addition of 'blue or gold stars', as having been in Polk's command, A surviving example, without stars, was carried by the 30th Arkansas Infantry until it was captured on 31 December 1862. It measures 40 inches on the hoist by 4ft inches, with white letters...
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1 8th Alabama infantry 2 3rd Confederate Infantry Regiment 3 22nd Alabama Infantry Regiment 4 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment inches on the hoist by 73 inches on the fly. Moreover, the rectangular battle flags were edged with a pink border on all four sides, with a narrow white bunting border on the hoist through which nine holes w ere provided for flies to attach the flag to the staff. Regiments of the Army of Tennessee's Reserve Corps, commanded by Gen. John C. Breckinridge, carried the First...
The Second National Flag
1 lardly had the seamstresses turned out their first set of First National Flags when complaints about the emblems' appearance began to be voiced. From the military viewpoint, the similarity between the two sides' flags led to confusion, especially at the first big battle of the war, First Manassas. 'The mistake of supposing Kirby Smith's and Elzy's approaching troops to be Union reinforcements for McDowell's right was caused by the resemblance, at a distance, of the original Confederate flag...
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1 8th Virginia Infantry Regiment 2 4th North Carolina Infantry Regiment 3 5th Florida Infantry Regiment 4 49th Georgia Infantry Regiment 2 28th North Carolina Infantry- Regiment 4 Co. C, 10th North Carolina Regiment Volunteers -
Battle Flags
As indicated above, the first major battle of the war, Hull Kun or First Manassas, brought to light problems in using the First National Flag on the field of combat. For example, then-brigade commander Jubal Early was advised at one point during the battle that his regiments were firing on friends. Although he thought it was not so, he halted his men and rode out to where he could see a regiment drawn in battle line several hundred yards away. 'The dress of the volunteers on both sides at that...
The First National Flag
When Jefferson Davis was sworn into office as the President of the provisional government of the new Confederate States of America on tfi February 1861 in Montgomery, Alabama, the flag that floated over the scene was that of the state of Alabama. The states w hich had so recently left the almost hundred-year-old United States to form their own government had no flag to represent their new nation. The first flag used to represent the seceding southern states as a whole had a blue field with a...