- Joined
- Feb 23, 2013
- Location
- East Texas
Offered by Heritage Galleries; read the story at:
https://historical.ha.com/itm/milit...23&type=featured-9-hist--open-6163--tem082316
Why does one side have a single star and the other has 11?
Or is this two different flags?
Should be a movie about her...all her husbands and the drama too. From famous spy to die wearing threadbare clothes in Wisconsin. As the Civil War vets died so did a lot of her fame. Sort of like what's going on in history classes in today's schools.I realize a ton has been written about Belle but I'm not sure anyone has gotten it quite right- she must have been a riot. Love to see someone do a good job capturing what has to have a been her charm and probably humor would have a best seller on their hands.
Thanks for posting this piece of history.
Amazing! Thank you for sharing! I'm going to include the info about this rare find in my presentation in a few weeks!View attachment 251513
Offered by Heritage Galleries; read the story at:
https://historical.ha.com/itm/milit...23&type=featured-9-hist--open-6163--tem082316
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I wonder who bought it and where it is now.$62,500 it sold for.
On July 28, 1862, Capt. Robert Gould Shaw wrote home:
"Perhaps you have seen some accounts of a young lady at Front Royal, named Belle Boyd. There was quite a long and ridiculous letter about her copied into the 'Evening Post' the other day. I have seen her several times, but never had any conversation with her. Other men who have talked with her, tell me that she never asked for any information about our army, or gave them the slightest reason to suppose her a spy; and they were probably as capable of judging as the correspondent who wrote about her. She gave Fred. d' Hauteville a very pretty Secession flag, which she said she carried when she went out to meet Jackson's troops coming into Front Royal."
Capt. Frederic Sears Grand d' Hauteville, born in Boston of a Swiss aristocrat father and a wealthy American mother, was serving on the staff of Gen. Nathaniel Banks at the time. He later sent the flag to his family in Switzerland, where it was carefully preserved for 150 years. Thus it's pristine condition.