Confederate Flags at Indianapolis

Confederate Veteran
Volume 8, Number 2, Page 67
February 1900

The return of the flag to Terry's Texas Rangers, as reported in the last Veteran, suggests the propriety of returning other Confederate Flags in the archives at Indianapolis. Their records report the following:

Flag captured by Thirty-Seventh Indiana Volunteers, 1862.

Captured by Augustine Guards, 1864, by Seventeenth Indiana, flag of First Kentucky Cavalry.

Colors of Third Georgia Cavalry, captured by Second Indiana Cavalry in 1862.

Confederate flag captured at Fort Donelson. Presented to Gov. Morton by Forty-Fourth Regiment.

Confederate flag captured at Vicksburg by the Rising Sun boys in July, 1863.

Confederate flag captured at Tulip, Ark., 1863, from Arkansas Volunteers, by the First Regiment of Indiana Volunteers.

Gen. Morgan's flag, captured by Fourth Indiana Cavalry in 1864.

Confederate flag captured by Company B, Forty-Ninth Indiana Volunteers, at Big Creek Gap.

Battle flag of Terry's Texas Rangers, captured by two companies of the Eleventh Indiana.

Four unidentified Confederate flags; seven unidentified infantry guidons; twenty-four unidentified camp markers; two white markers; Third Brigade flag; thirty-three unidentified flags.

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