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Re: 17th Arkansas flag before Pea Ridge

John,

I know of no Van Dorn flags flying at Pea Ridge from any CS regiment. The battle was in March 1862 and the first issues of Van Dorn flags don't come until June for the Missouri Brigade made by the ladies of Guntown, Mississippi. These have the fringed borders. The next issues don't show up for the rest of Van Dorn's Army of the West until August probably made by a flag maker in Jackson, Mississippi.

Most of the flags at Pea Ridge would have been First Nationals.

Greg Biggs

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