I saw no "red flags" (no pun intended) and presumed the flags authentic, as awarded to the officer (Charles W. Keen, Jr.) for service at Yorktown in 1862. What puzzled me was finding no indication in the standard reference (J. Willard Brown's "Signal Corps, USA, in the War of the Rebellion[sic]") that the officer was at Gettysburg, notwithstanding the statement of Capt. Fortescue. (See summary of Keen's service, Brown, p. 808.) Stretching a literal reading of his words, it might be imagined that he referred to "flags of this sort," but that would not seem to be the case or that some mix-up had occurred. I did not pursue the matter, for my concentration was on "the other signal corps at Gettysburg," as later described in my article in "Gettysburg" magazine, issue four. But use of an inscribed star flag on LRT was apparently contrary to the February 1863 General Order from the US War Department.