Ryan,
Thanks much. The fact that the jar with the 6th Mississippi flag in it was there also indicates a state ownership or connection as that flag is indeed part of the state's collection. I saw it in the state museum in Jackson years ago.
The 6th Miss carried one of the early Buckner/Hardee flags at Shiloh and I have always wondered where that is today if anywhere as the flag in the jar is not of this pattern.
Greg Biggs