I meant to type 1898 or 1899. It comes from an article I ran across searching footnote. I’ll try and find the whole article again and send it to you. My note has: the Citadel flag flew over the State Capital on the arrival of our State troops from Rhode Island. I’m guessing it has something to do with the Spanish American War. What it looked like, the article didn’t say. I was hoping you had something on it.

[I guess my question would be why would someone make a SC flag in Mobile?] I have files on known flags made for blockade runners, the flags are about the same size as the Mr. Baker’s flag in Iowa. Since Mobile had several flag makers that supplied the Confederate Army, I guess one or two or more made flags for the blockade runners also. To make a run from Mobile to Charleston an SC flag would come in handy. The flag is in to good of shape to have been used, it’s probable it was made and not delivered do to the Union blockade of the harbor.

[though no one can fault Iowa's care of it.] The conserver did a bang up job on preserving the flag, just wish they had analyzed the microscopic evidence before cleaning the flag.

Happy Trails!
Tom Martin