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Unique Flag on Canteen N.C. Museum

Go to the website of the North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, N.C., for a view of the 13-ring "bull's-eye" canteen of (Epis. Rev.) Edward Wooten, Sgt. & Lt., CSA, Co. B, 5th N.C. Cavalry (1837-1925), enlisted Pitt Co., N.C., buried Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, N.C., the son of Shadrack "Shade" Wooten and Mary Elizabeth "Eliza" Murphy Wooten. The museum also displays the smooth-side canteen of Wooten's brother-in-law, Pvt. May, with indentical three CSA flags on it. The neck of Wooten's canteen has a tiny pin-scratched-like "W" on it. The book of North Carolina Confederate Women says Mrs. Wooten had five sons in CSA service. Rev. Wooten of 11 S. Third St., Wilmington, is pictured in the Confederate Vet's picture, a chaplain of the camp. In N.C. state archives, Raleigh, New Hanover Co., pension applications; are many letters from Rev. Wooten and a Wilmington Red Cross lady attempting to get a pension for a former slave who served the CSA army. Why the picture of my ancestor Capt. Edward Malone, Sr., poped-up, I'm not sure.

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