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Re: 32nd NC Troops Flag at Gettysburg

The actual story is a little more complicated. No flag sent from Richmond. Although the design for the Second National Flag was not yet in general use, the officers at Carlisle came up with a reasonable substitute by incorporating some white bunting with a battle flag from one of Daniel's regiments. "Finding a number of U.S. garrison flags at the barracks & the flag-staff standing, we concluded to raise a Confederate flag for the benefit of the ignorant citizens," Major Campbell Brown from Ewell's staff remarked in his journal. He noted that "the Battle flag of the [32nd] N.C. was made the ground-work, two or three tailors were procured, and in an hour or two we had a handsome flag ready for hoisting."

This version is backed up by Maj. Sandie Pendleton in a letter to his fiancee:

"At the masthead where but yesterday floated the 'Stars & Stripes' of the garrison in Carlisle Barracks has just been raised the flag of our Southern Confederacy, and the 'Battle Flag' sanctified by such libations of blood now flaunts the breeze in the very spot where formerly was seen the vision of the old flag," he explained. Pendleton pointed out that it was "no ordinary flag, but the regimental color of the 36th [32nd] N. C. Regt. which we have fitted up with white bunting, & which will again be carried to victory by its brave defenders."

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