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Confederate Veteran Vol. XV Apr. 1907
 
CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAGS IN ALBANY, N.Y.
Joel Mann Marlin, of Schenectady, N.Y., wrote to the Atlanta Constitution of the Confederate flags in the museum of G.A.R. Memorial Assoc., giving the following list:
 
Flag of the 5th South Carolina Cavalry, captured at Trevilian Station, June 11, 1864.
 
Flag taken from a company of sixty-one so-called bush-whackers in command of Lieutenant Colonel Wilhite near Syracuse, Mo., Oct. 5, 1863. The Confederate colonel was killed and his body wrapped in this flag, which is stained with his blood.
 
Flag of steamer Beauford, of C.S.A.
 
A flag captured at Columbia, S.C.
 
{other flags mentioned were from other states}

Mr. Mann adds; " I should be pleased to see a space in the capitol of every State set apart and dedicated to the preservation of these and similar sacred relics of the Confederacy. Especially do I desire to see such a collection of hallowed mementoes in the capitol of my native State , Georgia- not to revive the bitter memories of sectional animosity and civil strife, but to be a perpetual reminder of the momentous sacrifice of men and women who were actuated by a sense of real, if unwise, patriotism !"


 

 
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