Alan J. Pitts
Re: Palmetto flag....
Thu Apr 12 10:47:04 2001


Sorry -- My point on Clanton's Brigade wasn't worded clearly. Members of both Clanton's and Buford's commands were doubtless captured between Benton and Girard during Wilson's raid. Evidently Federal soldiers wanted to attribute flags they picked up along the way to Confederate units resisting their advance. If you expected to be honored for capture of a battleflag, it wouldn't sound right to say that you took it out of a trunk you found in a Southern lady's bedroom.

• Flags at the fall in Ala. — Hayes Lowe, Thu Apr 12 12:48
• Re: Flags at the fall in Ala. — Alan J. Pitts, Thu Apr 12 15:25
• flag confusion — Hayes Lowe, Thu Apr 12 16:11
• Flags — Ken Jones, Thu Apr 12 16:16
• Here's "the rest of the story"... — Hayes Lowe, Thu Apr 12 17:13