Fort Sumter Flag

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I was reading Ed Bearss book Fields of Honor and I didn't know that the flag that was used during the assault on Fort Sumter in 1861 was the same flag that Anderson put back up at the end of war.

I'm sure many of you knew this but it had escaped me. I wonder where it is now?
 
Just caught the end of Civil War Journal on History Channel. It mentioned that. Also they said that Lincoln was invited to attend too. Would he have been in Ford's Theater that night if he had? Makes you wonder.....?
 
The flag is in the collection of the NPS at Fort Sumter.

A while back we had a query here from someone who had a locket or frame with a few threads of that flag; apparently it had been a gift to an ancestor by Mrs. Anderson.
 
I was reading Ed Bearss book Fields of Honor and I didn't know that the flag that was used during the assault on Fort Sumter in 1861 was the same flag that Anderson put back up at the end of war.

I'm sure many of you knew this but it had escaped me. I wonder where it is now?

The gg grand daughter of Louis Wigfall has an approximately 1 inch square section of a US flag flown at Fort Sumter. She also has boxes of stuff once belonging to her ancestor including a linen handkerchief or napkin use as a flag of truce when Wigfall took it upon himself to demand the fort’s surrender. Wigfall’s gg granddaughter lives in North Carolina and her grand mother gave most of his belongings to her several years ago when she joined the UDC. She has given programs to my SCV camp on two occasions and bringing for display the most interesting of her ancestor’s artifacts.

Lieutenant Charles Brown (21st Michigan) describing a Confederate attack on his position at Bentonville: “stood as long as a man could stand and when that was no longer a possibility we run like the duce.”

The Battle of Bentonville, 19-21 March 1865
 
The Fort Sumter flags were taken back to the North by Anderson when he surrendered.
They are now in the NPS collection

Garrison Flag
http://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/flags/fosu2.htm

Storm Flag
http://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/flags/fosu3.htm

They were both 33 star flags with a rather interesting star pattern. (Although Kansas was admitted as a state in January 1861, the 34th star would not officially be added to the flag until July 4, 1861.)

Anderson toured the North with the flags and displayed them in several cities to raise money for the war effort.

He returned to the fort in 1865 and raised the garrison flag in a special ceremony.

Larry Keener-Farley
 
The Fort Sumter flags were taken back to the North by Anderson when he surrendered.
They are now in the NPS collection

Garrison Flag
http://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/flags/fosu2.htm

Storm Flag
http://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/flags/fosu3.htm

They were both 33 star flags with a rather interesting star pattern. (Although Kansas was admitted as a state in January 1861, the 34th star would not officially be added to the flag until July 4, 1861.)

Anderson toured the North with the flags and displayed them in several cities to raise money for the war effort.

He returned to the fort in 1865 and raised the garrison flag in a special ceremony.

Larry Keener-Farley

Thanks for posting the links!!
 
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