Foreign Flags

[Henry]

I'd recently finished research of the USS Vanderbilt incident of October 30, 1863 and discovered the following incident in reading some Irish newsprint of the period. Does anyone have any mention of other "foreign flag" incidents of the period, either on land or sea?

Mr. Daniel Shea, proprietor of a spirit store on Main Street, Killarney, Ireland was summoned for "having hung out and displayed" a Federal flag on June 26, 27, 1863. This was in violation of certain illegal assembly statutes. The case was dismissed after being heard.

 

[K Hale]

I can't look it up right now but there was some mill in Georgia that was flying the French flag when Sherman came through. I think it was the mill where all those women worked, who Sherman sent north. Anyway, Sherman was not fooled by the "We're really French!" ploy and torched the place. I think the mill actually was owned by a French company, but the fact was, it was making clothes, tents, etc for the Confederate army.

EDIT: Town's name just came to me: Roswell.

 

[gary]

The mill mentioned by K Hale was in Roswell, Georgia. Deborah Petite wrote a book about the burning of the mill and the deportation of the women mill workers. The mill owner had a Frenchman raise his flag over it and declare it was his. However, when the Union troops inspected it, they found the mill was making cloth for the Confederate Army. Naughty-naughty says the Union commander and it was razed. The Women Will Howl is a terrific piece of research. I've a post somewhere here that talks about unpatriotic Confederates who would rather distill corn whiskey than sell corn to for food. It came out of her book.

 

[Scribe]

I've a post somewhere here that talks about unpatriotic Confederates who would rather distill corn whiskey than sell corn to for food. It came out of her book.

Since the tax-in-kind laws were allowing the Confederate government to take food crops from farmers at near confiscatory prices and pay those prices with increasingly worthless Confederate paper dollars, the decision the convert your corn to whiskey may well have had more to do with economoic survival than any lack of patriotism.

 

[5fish]

I do not understand how a capture British ship off the African coast relates to foreign flags...

Here the OR...

http://books.google.com/books?id=bq...re by USS Vanderbilt October 30. 1863&f=false

 

[The Iron Duke]

The French tricolor can be seen in the Roswell visitor's center.