A Union Flag Displayed in Atlanta.

Savannah Republican
July 29, 1862
p. 1, c. 2

A Union Flag Displayed in Atlanta.—Quite an excitement was raised in our city yesterday morning, by the display from the window over Hunnicutt & Taylor's of a very large and handsome Lincoln flag. An excited crowd soon collected, and men were hastening along the different streets in that direction. Some one came into our sanctum, and, with considerable emotion, told us to look out at the ensign of treason. We looked, and there it was! in full view from our window, spread to the breezes waving to and fro, the beautiful flag of the once powerful and honored, but now broken and disgraced, United States, involved in bankruptcy and steeped in perfidy by the conduct of her rulers, sustained by the endorsement of a degenerate and wicked people.

At a second look, however, we discovered that the Union of the flag was down. The crowd soon found out that it was a Yankee flag captured at Murfreesboro', and their rising wrath subsided.

We visited the room, and found it to be a magnificent trophy—the flag of the 9th Michigan regiment. It is the largest and handsomest flag we ever saw. It is of the finest silk, the brightest colors, and most tastefully wrought—the stars and the name of the regiment being in the most elegant needle work, and the whole surrounded by the finest silk fringe.

[Atlanta Confederacy.]

Article transcribed by Vicki Betts.