The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-07-03
OUR BATTLE FLAGS.
The CoIors o. the Lost Gauss and
Thair Origin.
AN IN fEREsTlNG STORY
Which May 3 ar Revision Of an
Anse.Sscession Flag Which
secama the Flag Of
South Carolina.
South Carolina.

secama tha Flag Of
South Carolina.
The first, says the Newport News Herald,
flag Indicative OF sebession was raised at
Charleston, s. c., December 19, 1860, one
day prior to the passage Of the ordnance
whereby South Carlins withdrew from the
Federal Union and declared its Independence.
The flag is flag of solid red, with crescent
and star, in white, quartered in the upper
left hand c?rner. Who designed the fig is
not known to this writer; g number of
Charleston ladies purchased the material,
made it on the pattern des IT bed, and ran it
up on the tall staff Of the Custom House, It's
dimensions were eight feet in length and Elk
feet broad.
Later it became the naval flag Of South
Carolina and continued such to the close Of
the war Those made for the navy we're
forked at the eud. The South Catolina priys-
teer Dixie, fl 5ing the star and crescent flag,
engaged the United States battle ship
Keystone State, and after terrific fight, in
which the Keystone State suffered terribly,
the Dixie wss captured in sinking condition
its enlird crew being dead or disabled from
wounds.
The critics objected to the red f,g with
lis silver quarteTings, on the ground that
silver OF Whie on red was non-hersldic. 1t
was criticised also on the ground that it was
almost identical with the Turkish flag.
Those and other points Of objection, while
falling to attract the attention Of the naval
commanders, caused alterations to be made
in the original, after which the Legis-
lature adopted the remodelled pattern IS the
flag of the sovereignty Of the State of Sou
Carolina.
CROSS OF ST. GEORGE.
The revised South Carolina flag had the
cross of St. George in blue as its chief quar-
tering, the cross emblszoned both on its up.
right and transverse, with white stars cor
| responding in number to the number Of
States in the southern Confeleracy. Another
alteration was that the small star in white
appearing on the original flag near the cres-
cent was substituted in the flag Of sover
eighty By white palmetto tree
The first national flag of the Southern Con
fede1acy was adopted at Montgomery, Ala,
March 4, 1861, and " ss hoi6ted to the sum.
nit of the staff of the Capital building in that
ci,y, Miss L. c. Tyler, daughter Of E1-Presi-
dent Tyler, pulling the cord which sent the
Stars aud Bars gliding gloriously up the pole
in the presence of q multitude who greeted
the new flag with deafening cheers.
The Act of the Confederate Congress in
session st Montgomery. Ala declares that
the flag OF the Confederate States of America
shall consist Of 6 red field, with while
space extending h,rs ,ntally through the
the centre, and equal in width TO one.thiId
of the width of the flag, the red space above
aud below to be the same width as the white;
canton Of blue extending do1nWari
through the while space and stopping at the
upper border Of lower red space In the
centre of the blue canton stars correspond
ing IN number to the nuGber Of States IN the
Southern Confederacy must be placed ia q
circle, the circle indicative Of perpetuity.
THE FIRST FLAG.
The frat flag bore seven stars, that ing
the Lumber OF States il the Conf: deracy at
the time the Stars and Bars became the
Southern fIg by enactment at Mon;g 1mery,
Ala on the date mentioned above Later
became customary to make flags With thir-
teen Stars, one for each Of the eleven seeding
States, one for May land and one for Ken
lucky, and in come instances the Stars and
Bars bore fourteen stars, the State of Mis-
souri being included in the Southern constel-
laton?
The Stars and Bars ceased TO be the legal
national isg on May l, 1868, an Act of Con-
gress passed on that date substituted another
flag hereafter to be described, but while the
Stars and Bars by the subsequent ensctment
ctates of America, to the end Of the war it
fosted on many forts and was carried by
many regiment. II is probable that when
Father Ryan wrote his immortal requiem Of
the Lost Cause he had in mind the flag Of
the Stars and Bars.
The Beauregsrd Battle flag is the best
known emblem Of the Lost Cause, and the
history of its origin is exceedingly interest
ing 1t was designed jointly by Gen. Pierre
Toutant Beaursgard and Col. William P.
Miles, of Gen. Beauregard's staff. In
herald1c terms the battle flag consists Of q
| leld of red and euartsred therein q broad,
blue saltier bor6ered and white, both bars Of
the blue white bordered saltier to be en-
blazoned with fve-p pointed stars correspond
ing in number to the number of States in the
Southern Confederacy.
BALTIMORE GIRL s WORK.
After agreeing upon the pattern and de-
sign German artist, serving on Gen Beau
regards staff, made > picture Of the battle
flag. which Gen. joseph E. Johnston sp'
proved, and Immediately Misses Constance
and Jennie Carey, two Baltimore bellies, 80
journing in Fairfax County, Vs., organized
sewing club and made numoer Of these
fsgs, which were used in subsequent battles.
In september, 1861, the Confederate Con-
gress enacted bill authorizing the design
described above ss q battle flag Of the South
ern Coafederacy, and such it continued un-
til the end Of hostillries.
In an addres. before the Louisiana Division
of the Army OF Northern Virginia, delivered
in December, 1877, Gen. Beauregard de-
scribed the incidents leading to The adop.
ton Of the battle flag, in substance, as fol-
lows:
At4 O'clock in the afternoon; July q,
1861, the battle was raging on the plains of
Manassas ond reinforcements were urgently
needed on both sides. Gen, Mcdowell was
casting anxious eyes towards the Blue Ridge
Mountains, hoping to see Patterson column
emerge from the cust cloud which hung liSs
pail on his flank. Gen. Beauregard was
also watching in the same direction, expect
ing jubal Early, with the oath Virginia, the
7th Louisiana and the 18th Mississippi,
column strong enough to route the enemy
already hammered to the verge Of defeat. a
Confederate signal officer informed his
anxious commander that q strong column was
approaching by the Warren turnpike, prob
aoly Patterson, the signal officer stated. The
air vas motionlesss, not breezs stirring,
and the colors of the advancing host dropped