Nice web site. One correction for you. The third flag for the 37th Alabama - the one at Auburn University - was presented to the regiment before they went to Dalton, GA in May 1864. The first issues of what we call the Mobile Depot patterns came in October 1863 to the cavalry division of William Hicks Jackson and then continued through the winter of 1863-1864 and into Spring 1864. These battle flags became the flag for the Department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana and were first created at the behest of General Joseph Johnston. Johnston went to Georgia and was replaced by Leonidas Polk and Polk continued the issuing of the flags which ended in July 1864 when Bedford Forrest's Cavalry Corps received them. In between, the units of Polk's Army of Mississippi and the District of the Gulf also received these flags as did units of SD Lee's Cavalry Corps and other units of the department.

The flags were made mostly by Jackson and Sarah Belknap of Mobile with 25 of them being made by Memphis transplant James Cameron.

Hope all of this helps.

Greg Biggs