Elsewhere in the sale were two Civil War flags dated to 1864 and captured from the CSS Tennessee, when Rear Admiral David G Farragut's Federal fleet attacked a smaller Confederate fleet and three forts at Mobile Bay, a key inlet in the Gulf of Mexico.

As a result of the bloody conflict, the continued presence of a Union Army force near Mobile constrained the Confederate Army in its last desperate campaigns during the Civil War. Farragut's Lt Commander, GH Perkins, later gifted the flags to his friend Captain Noyes as a New Year's present.

Measuring 18 inches x between 40-50 inches, both flags were described by Greg Martin Auctions as being in very good condition, with age wear and minor snags to the fabric. They comfortably exceeded their lower $15,000 estimate, eventually realising $19,975.