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Arkansas Volunteers Cavalry Banners

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This is my first time visiting this website. I am in search of banners that may still exist today that were turned in at the end of the war. I have a family tree book where a great deal of information is recorded about the men having fought in the Civil War. The brothers were members of the Arkansas Cavalry Volunteers (Union), 2nd Regiment, Company C.

I have learned while researching my Russell family history that the unit my ancestor served in during the Civil War donated two embroidered banners to the Arkansas government at the end of their service in the Civil War. The banner/s were to be held in the archives in commemoration of the work the Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry (Union) provided. They were the men of the 2nd regiment, Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry, the banner had the words, "Independence", "Big Blue", and "Osage" embroidered on them, those names were ordered by the war department to have been embroidered and then be presented to the governor of Arkansas to be prerved among the archives of the state. It has been noted to me by a deceased ancestor that the banner was indeed in the Arkansas archives.

I Have already contacted the Old State House Museum in Little Rock and have learned they have no information regarding the banner or banners that are said to have been turned over to the state of Arkansas at the end of the war.
I have been told that any Union flags or banners turned into the state of Arkansas was probably destroyed due to the strong animosity after the Civil War. If anyone has heard of these banners I would like to hear from them.

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