I am working on an article regarding the Arkansas Militia during Reconstruction. On November 14, 1868, General Robert Catterson and Major Josiah H. Demby, Arkansas Militia, led a raid on a suspected Klan organization at Center Point, in Howard County. After a short battle on the edge of town, the militia captured what was described as a Klan meeting hall. In the hall the militia men found a flag described as

"Stars and Bars were spread on the altar in the center of the room. The flag had Seymore [Seymour] and Blair lettered on it."

I have know that the Old State House Museum in Little Rock, had a flag associated with the raid on Center Point, and had always assumed that it was the Confederate flag described above. I recently discovered that the flag at the Old State House is in fact the flag that was carried by Major Demby's First Regiment, Arkansas State Guard during the raid.

http://www.collections.oldstatehouse.com/emuseum40/view/objects/asitem/search$0040/2/title-desc?t:state:flow=6f0c62ef-4267-4224-a38c-b238104f3b70

Any thoughts on the Confederate flag from Center Point? What would Seymore [Seymour] and Blair have been in reference to. Was this really a Klan relic or a surviving war time flag. Any idea what became of it?