"There is no doubt that the flag is an SC flag. But when it gets to SC for display those people at the Citadel will probably darn near offer sacrifices to it while chanting "Big Red, Big Red" as people in grass skirts dance around it."

I'm going to be upfront here, so please be nice to me. I am the one that originally saw the flag on the Iowa website and started contacting some of the people that contacted other people, which got all this started. So, when I say I'm glad it's coming home, trust me, those Citadel boys can dance all they want in those grass skirts and I'm still going to be smiling.

Last time I posted on here about this flag I was skewered because I took offense to the "finding" being attributed to a Citadel alumnus. My blood runs garnet and black, baby! I'm hoping to see it when it gets home, but if I don't, I already saw it in Iowa, so there, you grass-skirted Citadel alumni taking credit for a Gamecock's find =).

With that being said, I worked with several people (who may have been Citadel alumns)before it got to their historian (whose name I can't recall). Basically, the tie was through the men who were at Fort Blakely. I've studied the maps of Fort Blakely and read and reread the donor's words on his finding it. I've spent hours searching for any diaries, letters - anything - for the Iowa regiment of the man who found it. You never know what will turn up. I read some of my ancestor's Civil War letters for the first time last year and was able to send to a childhood friend a copy of a letter which mentioned his ancestor making out like a bandit in a union camp after a rout. I found the letters referenced in a book (I had no idea they existed).

"This is a very sad day for flag history. Even their big flag expert refuses to send me his report on his SC flags that were allegedly made by Hugh Vincent. I have to wonder what he is hiding."

I had not realized they had tied it to the Hugh Vincent flags. I know its style is similar to the one at the SC Historical Society, which is thought to be a Hugh Vincent flag I believe. Who is their flag expert?

As I said, please don't skewer me, again. I'm not saying the flag is or isn't "the" Citadel flag. All I know is that it's red, it's a Palmetto, and it's coming home!