DAILY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL [AUGUSTA, GA], December 15, 1861, p. 2, c. 3

Black Flag.--We learn from the Mobile Tribune that J. Scott, Esq., of that city, presented a handsome and beautifully worked flag to the “Mobile Bay Chasseurs.” The design of the flag is as follows: A black ground on both sides; on the front of the device is a skeleton and a rattlesnake, with the motto, “Sic Semper Tyrannis,” worked in silver. On the obverse, a gallows with the motto, “Lincoln Avenue South,” worked in the same style.

“The 2nd day of its session an attack was made by one Brigade of the Enemy four Regiments numbering Seventeen hundred & Sixty five men at day break, which resulted in a bloody battle & repulse. The enemy fought under a black flag & a white one upon which was emblazoned a deaths head & cross bones & coffin, their battle cry was “no quarter.”

Court of Inquiry of Col. Isaac Shepard.

Black flags with with some sort of design (Pirate or other) have been found in period newspapers, both North & South.

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Tom Martin
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