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 !"