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300-400 Captured Flags at War Dept. in 1864

MONTGOMERY WEEKLY ADVERTISER, July 6, 1864, p. 2, c. 4

Captured flags and banners, to the number of at least three or four hundred, are packed away at the War Department. They have been received from every portion of the Confederacy where a battle has been fought or a victory won. There are big flags and little flags, banners, markers and guidons; some of silk, and some of bunting—some plain and some embroidered; some bloody and stained with the gore of the bearer, and others as white and virgin as when they came from the fanatical hands of the "committee of presentation."

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