>>>>>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. <<<<<<<

How interesting! Another mystery. I'm going to make a note of this, any extra info if you find the article, and put up my antennae. I have 3 shelves in my bookcase dedicated to SC non-Civil War history (the SC Civil War history goes on my Civil War shelves). If I find something, I'll surely let you know. Is it safe to assume you have asked the Citadel and they didn't know?

>>>>>I have files on known flags made for blockade runners, <<<<<<

I know that the director of the Iowa Museum looked through the index of the Trenholm Company records in Liverpool and didn't see anything that looked promising enough to order them for full review. I was in Liverpool this past May for a day and did a Civil War walkabout with a Liverpool native. I considered staying in Liverpool another day to look at those records, but I had never been to London before and decided to spend most of my time in that location. Donuts to dollars if the flag was made for a blockade runner, the ship was owned by the Trenholm family.

>>>>>>The conserver did a bang up job on preserving the flag, just wish they had analyzed the microscopic evidence before cleaning the flag. <<<<<

Iowa had no way of knowing how much we South Carolinians love our flags =). Sure, we've been fighting on and off for the last 150 years to get the 1865 Statehouse flag back, but that's reasonable. I'm sure when they visited the Citadel they about fell out when they saw all the Palmettos on the back and front of vehicles.