The Cook County herald., 1905-05-20

In well-known business building
in Louisville, KY, is a time-stained
room rich in it's memories and tradi-
tions of the old South.
1t is the art studio of Nicola Mar
schall, portrait painter and designer of
the uniform and flag OF the Confeder-
ate states. From his Prussian home,
where he was trained to the painters
art, he came to America at one of the
most picturesque periods of this coun-
try's history, the gold fever days of
'49.
The story of how Mr.. Marschall
came to design the uniform and flag
of the Confederacy is best told in his
own words:
II came to this country" he said,
when I was IS years of age. | land
ed in New Orleans and made my way
to Mobile, where lived relative. |
met him on the eve of his departure
for California.
my kinsman tried to persuade me
to join. his mining party and go: to
California. But l was then as far away
from home as I cared to be, and de-
clined. I became acquainted with one
of the teachers in a female seminary
at Marion, Ala. I became a teacher
there, and taught painting, violin, pi-
ano, guitar and the French and Ger
man languages.
my studies in Europe of drawing
and painting now served me well. l
came over here on an old sailing YES
sci, and we'll do I remember to this
day how l had to draw the picture of
every member of the crew, from cap
tain to humblest sailor. l had been in
this country one year when my broth
er arrived here from Prussia.
I'm 1857 l returned to Prussia and
remained two years, continuing my
studies of art. 1t was while passing
through Verona, which then belonged
to Austria, that I saw the uniform
which years later was to furnish me
the design for the Confederate uni.
form.
''In Verona one day the notes OF
/ martial music came to me. A party
of .sharpshooters belonging to the Aus.
trian army were passing.
"'What splendid soldiers, what no
BILE uniforms!' was my comment as
saw them. They were dressed in q
striking uniform of gray with green
trimmings The green denoted their
branch of the neutrality-suspicious.
and their rank was indicated by marks
on the collars of their coats, bars fol
higher officers.
II returned to America in 1859 and
again located in Marion There
painted many portraits of the
wealthy.
I Mrs. Napoleon Lockett, a beauti
full woman of an old Virginia famil,
and the wife of planter, lived al
Marion. Her eldest son married the
daughter of Gov. Moore and one o.
her younger sons married one of tht
younger daughters of Gov. Moore.
"Soon came the first notes of war
Mrs. Lockett was as loyal a daughter
as the South had. She came to me
one day and said: Mr.. Marschall, W.
have seeded, and the Confederate
government wants flag. Will yor
make us design? 1t must not be
too unlike the United States flag, bu,
different enough to be distinguished
at a distance
II took pencil and paper and made
three different designs. The first was
of two red stripes and one of white
with blue field bearing in the upper
left-hand corner seven white stars, in
dicating the number of states that had
then seeded. The second design had
the field of stars at the extreme left
of the white stripe instead Of the tor
red stripe. The third design had the
two full red stripes at top and bottom
the white stripe in the middle, with
the blue field and white stars in the
center"
| The first design, made by Mr.. Mar
schall, was adopted by the Confeder
ate government. This f1ag-the Stars