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Re: Description of the Gate City Guards (GA.) Flag

Here is the presentation of the second one you mentioned after they lost the first flag.

Richard

SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY [ATLANTA, GA], August 15, 1861, p. 3, c. 1

The Gate-City Guards.

On Monday evening a number of recruits for this company left here for the head quarters of the regiment at McDowell, Highland county, Virginia.

A beautiful flag was presented to the company by Mrs. W. F. Westmoreland on the part of the ladies of the city who made a new one for them--the one given them when they first left here in March last, having been lost in the retreat from Laurel Hill. The presentation took place at the residence of Dr. W. F. Westmoreland.

Last night Capt. Ezzard left on the State road to join his command.

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