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- From: cjt1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Charles Ten Brink)
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- Subject: Re: Return of Captured Confederate Battle Flags
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.145023.8786@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:50:23 GMT
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- In article <BzMFoq.HM7@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> charbonn@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (gary charbonneau) writes:
- >Over the years, many of these flags were "returned" to the southern
- >states (again, I presume to statehouses or historical societies).
- >Can anyone provide information about these returns? I believe that
- >there was some kind of mass return of flags shortly after the turn of
- >the century, while others, I think, have occurred quite recently.
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- The only information I could find on this (although I haven't been able to
- research it thoroughly) relates to the flags held by the US government. I
- believe it had most of them. There was an attempt in the 1890's to return
- the flags, which was voted down with some acrimony, and heavily lobbied
- against by the GAR. In 1905 (February 24, to be exact) the matter was
- brought to a vote again, and passed without comment. I suspect that the
- declining membership of the GAR was one reason, as well as the surge
- of good feelings between the sections resulting from the Spanish-
- American War. None of my reference books had any reference to Confederate
- flags held by northern states.
- --Chuck
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