through our research, we have been able to determine that that 2th southte f of the 1 carolina infantry. it is really unfortunate that this beautiful flag with a nice oil tainted decide which features a flag itself in the center, -- oil tainted design, that only half of it survive. i cross my fingers that the descendents of the other union soldier may still have the other bottom half of it somewhere. this is a flag that is a completely unique design, that as long as we know that this is the all late surviving example of this flag and probably either was never -- of this flag. the women from a town called gordonsville, virginia, made this flag. hadresented it -- they captured several union soldiers and told them that they thought that the unusual design of this flag meant that the confederate troops meant to fight to the bitter end, meaning that they did not intend to take any prisoners. which was not the intent of the confederates carrying the flag. we do not know if it was x on this blue or the starburst that gave the impression that that is what the flag meant, but it was certainly a

through our research, we have been able to determine that this is company f of the south carolina infantry. it is really fortunate that this view the full flag with this nice oil painted design, you know, that only half of it still survive but i cross my fingers that the descendents of the other union soldiers may have the other half somewhere. this is a flag that is a completely unique design that as far as we know, this is the only surviving example of this flag and there probably was never another one made that quite looks like this. this was presented after the battle. they captured several union soldiers, they thought the unusual design meant that the confederate troops intended to fight to the bitter end, essentially meaning that they intended to take no prisoners. which was not the intent of the confederates carrying the flag. we do not know whether it was or the starburst that gave that impression, but it was certainly a message that made union troops fight really, really hard. confederate troops had not intended to send that particular message and did not want every other regiment