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- From: cjt1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Charles Ten Brink)
- Subject: Re: Return of Captured Confederate Battle Flags
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.154717.10606@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- References: <BzMFoq.HM7@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Dec22.145023.8786@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:47:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.145023.8786@midway.uchicago.edu> cjt1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >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.
- >
- >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.
-
- Don't you just love people who reply to their own posts? I just had the
- thought to check Nexis on this, and found three or four stories in the
- last ten years relating to the return by states of Confederate battle
- flags. Most recently, Massachusetts returned a Palmetto flag to South
- Carolina, and the Iowa Historical Society returned a Georgia flag on
- indefinite "loan" to the latter state. Obviously this is an ongoing
- issue.
-
- Also, a correction; the original attempt to return the flags was not in
- the 1890's, but in 1887. Grover Cleveland issued an executive order four
- days before Memorial Day of that year, directing the War Department to
- return the captured flags. He was forced to rescind the order three
- weeks later.
- --Chuck
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