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Civil War Flag – N.C. unit’s Civil War battle flag to be preserved

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) – A group of Civil War re-enactors is raising money to conserve a battle flag that a North Carolina unit carried during a futile infantry charge at Gettysburg.

The News & Record of Greensboro reported Wednesday that the flag carried by the 22nd North Carolina Regiment has been kept in storage at the North Carolina Museum of History for more than a century. The flag hasn’t been displayed because the tattered wool banner is deteriorating because of its age.

The flag includes yellow lettering with the name of the regiment with men from Guilford, Randolph and Caswell counties. Curators say holes could be from bullets and stains could be from blood.

The flag was captured by Union forces after Pickett’s Charge, the ill-fated attack on July 3, 1863, that historians believe was Confederates’ last desperate hope.

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Information from: News & Record, http://www.news-record.com

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