Mobile Register, Thursday, November 15, 2001, 2A, Col.3

”Yesterday’s News”
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Friday, Nov. 15, 1901

”The Association auditorium was filled…with the veterans of Semmes Camp, No. 11, and their friends, gathered there to witness the presentation to the camp of a flag by the ladies of the Ann T. Hunter Auxillary.” Commander E. F. Irwin presided, and Miss Mabel Heustis sang “Tenting on the Old Camp Ground.” Commander Irwin expressed thanks for the veterans, and “took occasion to extol Southern womanhood, reminding his hearers that the hands that made this flag worked for the soldiers in the dark days of ’61-’64.” The flag was entrusted for safekeeping to Sgt. James Hamilton. It was made of heavy white silk, surrounded with gold bullion fringe. It was also inscribed “Raphael Semmes Camp No. 11, Mobile, Alabama.” Mrs. F. P. Davis sang “The Bonnie Blue Flag,” and Thomas Halliwell sang "My Old Kentucky Home.”
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