BTW, have you seen the sketch in Harper's Weekly of the flag flying over the Alamo? The caption is "The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas, late head-quarters of ex-General Twigs--from a sketch by a government draughtsman." The Texas flag is upside down, with the white stripe on the bottom and the red on top. So was it really upside down, or did the draughtsman not get it right? And if the draughtsman got it right, did the Texans ever notice the error? Just one of those tiny details that make you go hmmmmmm. Robert Maberry in _Texas Flags_ indicates that the national/state flag of Texas had not been used that much after annexation, and that, plus the large percentage of recent immigrants to the state from east of the Mississippi, might have meant that nobody even noticed.

Vicki Betts