A unique study that analyzes the most powerful symbol of the Civil War from the perspective of both sides. Includes 41 full-color photos of flags captured at Gettysburg.
A unique study that analyzes the most powerful symbol of the Civil War from the perspective of both sides. Includes 41 full-color photos of flags captured at Gettysburg.
The Damned Red Flags of the Rebellion: The Struggle Over the Confederate Battle Flag at Gettysburg
"The Damned Red Flags of the Rebellion": The Struggle Over the Confederate Battle Flag at Gettysburg
A dramatic re-creation of a pivotal episode during the Civil War battle draws on more than 150 firsthand accounts, including commentary by Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Meade, Hancock, and others, that describe the planning, preparation, ...
... battle flag in his office , along with a U.S. flag and a portrait of Alabama Governor George C. Wallace . ... 21 For one of the men implicated in the activities of the Confederate Underground , Jesse B. Stoner , associating the ...
From the Virgin of Guadalupe banner of the Mexican independence leader Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla to the Lone Star flags of the Republic years and the battle flags of Confederate units, the book documents the unusually rich history of ...
... red and white stripes of the national colors. However, Confederate regiments carried only a single flag—the Stars and Bars on a square field—referred to by their opponents as “those damned red flags of rebellion.”15 Colors were as ...
... War, An Irish American's Journey in the First Virginia Infantry Regiment”, Pgs. 169-170. 308 “Statement of Benjamin W. Thompson, October 13, 1910, GNMP, as quoted in “The Damned Red Flags of the Rebellion”, by Richard Rollins, Pg. 197 ...
A. S. Van de Graaf of the 5th Alabama Battalion clearly state that there was a farm lane beyond the Emmitsburg Road. Seville, First Regiment, Delaware Vols., 81–82. J. H. Moore, “Heth's Division at Gettysburg,” The Southern Bivouac ...
... The Damned Red Flags of Rebellion " : The Confederate Battle Flag at Gettysburg ; Howard Michael Madaus , noted flag historian , Cody , Wyoming ; Wayne Crosby , a historian of the 8th Louisiana , Watson , La .; Pat Eymard of the ...