The flags of the Confederate armies. Returned to the men who bore them by the United States government (1905)
United Confederate Veterans · [St. Louis, Printed by Bruxton and Skinner] · leaf 55
follows: Sergeant Otis O. Roberts, of Company H, with only five men rushed upon the colorbearer of the Eighth Louisiana Regiment who was in the midst of his color company,and after a hand to hand fight, in which bayonets were freely used, succeeded in capturingthe colors and compelling the company… … Flag Carried by the 47th Regiment, North Carolina Volunteers.No date of capture given. North Carolina Flags. Owing to the fact that the returned Confederate flags of North Carolina havebeen carefully grouped in large cases in the Hall of History, at Raleigh, it wasimpossible, in the short time…
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