The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-10
IT WAS NOT A STATE FLAG.
a Member of the Hussars Talks About
the Flag Incident.

1 A Member Of the HuSsarS Talks ABOUT
the Flag Incident.
Excuses and explanations from Atlanta
in regard to the flag incident in connection
with the Hussars' march in the inaugural
parade seem more than anything else to ag-
gravate the feeling that has been aroused.
/ The statement that the flag carried in the
parade by Capt. Miller was state flag Is
emphaticslly denied by the Hussars. They
/ were left under the impression by the cor
respondence from headquarters in Atlanta
| that it would be the state colors alone that
/ would be carried, and with that they were
satisfied.
| The statement purported to have come
/ from Lieut.. Satterlee and published in the
I MORNING News Atlanta special yesterday
I furnished a subject for a good deal of talk
/ A prominent member of the Hussars who
was with the troops in Washington, and
| who is well acquainted with Lieut.. Satter-
| lee, said he doesn't believe Lieut.. Satterlee
made any such statement as he is quoted as
making, as it has too flimsy an appearance.
Continuing the talk on this line he re-
marked:
w lille i6 is probably true that the Incl
dent created more stir in Savannah than it
did among the Hussars who were in Wash
ington, IL was only because the Hussars
couldn't Kick at that time, as it was too late
and we had to accept the inevitable. There
is no telling, however, what the Hussars
might have said had not the home people
taken it up first.
1.-THE statement that Capt. Miller carried
a state flag is untrue, for the reason that
the flag be carried had on 1t the Georgia
coat Of arms and the letters q. Il. G.
while the regulations forbid any lettering
or stars on the state cOlors which consist of
perpendicular blue bar, from which radi-
ate three horizontal bars of scarlet, white
ana scarlet. So, even barring the u. II. g.
the flag was not a state flag.
I'm the last correspondence 1t was stated
that Capt Miller would carry the state
cOlors, and, accepting this, the Hussars
made no further attempt to have state
flag prepared to take along on the trip The
excuse, however, is made that Georgia has
no state flag small enough for such pur-
pose. OF course not. Why, then, were the
Hussars not allowed to carry the state flag
which they had begun to prepare, or It
might with equal propriety be asked Why
were there not enough public-spirited citI-
zens in Atlanta TO have a state flag prepared
at a cost which would not have exceeded Sjf
Il saw Gov. Northen's letter to Capt.
Gordon, accepting the services of the
Hussars as an escort, and the statement
that Gov. NOrthen also mentioned in that
letter that Capt. Miller would carry the
flag is incorrect No reference whatever
was made to that matter. OF course, on
the arrival at Washington there was no
other flag available, because no other flag
had been brought. The Hussars having
been left under the impression that they
we're to march behind the state
flag. 1t was due them as matter Of court
esy that stats flag be provided, which
could have been done az a small cost, or
| they should have been allowed to have car
ried on the state colors themselves
From the statements gathered from the
Hussars it seems that the flag carried was
not state flag, even barring the companys
insignia upon it, but a company flag carried
TO advertise end glorify the Governors
Horse Guards