The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-20
A Confederate Flag Captured.


Isaac B. Brown, late major. United
States army; deputy secretary of
internal affairs of Pennsylvania; pres
ident of the Survivors Associa-
ton of Hartranfts division, Army
| Of the Potomac, and member of Cory
Post G. A. R., at Cory, Pa, is a man
| who glories in the fact that he has com
mitted theft.
At the worlds fair there is on exhibi-
| ton an Anticipated locomotive called the
! General" 1t was a confederate parti-
san in war times, and did yeoman service
for the cause of the south in this state
! and Alabama in hauling troops and sup
plies from place to place The old loco
motive belongs to the state of Georgia,
and is Oh exhibition at the worlds fair
as a relic illustrating the state of ad-
vancement in railroad mechanism that
had been reached in the sixties and for
the purpose of permitting the people to
inspect an engine that had helped to
make history. The engine and its ac-
compartments are merely relics of the
past nothing more, nothing less.
Among the equipments of the locomo-
tive was a little three by five confederate
flag. II was the cOlors the old locomotive
used to sail under, so to speak. 1t was
hung on little staff and the staff stuck
on the engine. The purpose of the flag
was to indicate to visitors at glance
that the old locomotive had seen service
on the confederate side. It's meaning
extended not one jot or little beyond that
and nobody with common sense for one
instant supposed that it did. The little
flag hung there almost unnoticed for
weeks and months; but finally one day it
disappeared. So undemonstrative had
the bit of bunting been, however, that a
day or two elapsed before anybody missed
it; then a search for it was instituted
An examination Of the steam escape, into
which the flag staff had been stuck,
showed that the staff had been broken
of-some one had forcibly taken the flag
away.
Now 1t transpires that this Maj Isaac
B. Brown, deputy secretary, etc, etc,
and member of the Grand Army of the
Republic, committed the rape of the bunt-
ing, Furthermore, he is proud of it,
He publishes to the world the fact that
he stole the flag, Sin the presence of
witnesses" and imagines that he has per-
formed an act Of heroism for which he
should receive the profound thanks of a
grateful country and probably also a
pension,
Brown, it seems, is acquainted with a
man who belongs to the Grand Army
post 4in Pennsylvania that was named
after Andrews, the leader of the raiders
that captured the locomotive, and there
fore feels a personal interest in the An
drews' raid and all that pertains thereto.
Well, Brown was walking through the
transportation department the other day
when he stumbled upon the old Cen
eral." After ascertaining something of
the history of the locomotive he hap
pened to spy the little bit of what was
once confederate bunting over the cab
The old flag on first glimpse looked bigger
to Brown than a section of the roof of the
building. The sight of it sent his heart
into his boots. But it quickly recoiled
when Brown glanced around and saw
there were three or four people looking
then his blood boiled, and heaping impre-
cations upon the traitorous wretches who
dared faunt rebel flag at the worlds
fair, he climbed upon the locomotive,
tore the flag down, secreted it upon his
person and disappeared.
Brown proposes to present the con-
federate flag that he so valiantly cap
tured, as described above, to the Cory
post at meeting shortly to be held. 1t
is hard to believe that Cory post would
receive the stolen relic.