So the non-Irish in Cleburne's Division embraced the Irish revolution beliefs? OR did they identify with the flag they carried at Shiloh, Richmond, Perryville, Murfressboro, Chickamauga and Chattanooga where their blood and tears were tied to those flags? I think its a little less of the heoric Irish revolutionary spirit that the men kept the flag.

For Buckner to say he created the pattern, him being in the old Kentucky guard and the troops of central Kentucky adopting a very, very similar flag seems very logical.