The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-29
lUof11efn and Society.
BY MRS. ,. M. DE coTTEs.

every member of the crew, from cap- tain to humblest sailor. had been in this country one year when my broth CT arrived here from Prussia.
 Tn 1857 I returned to Prussia and remained two years, continuing my studies of art. It 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.
 Tn Verona one day the notes of mar tial music came to me. A party of sharpshooters belonging to the Aus trian army were passing.
 "What splendid soldiers, what mo- ble uniforms! was my comment as l saw them. They were dressed in q striking uniform of gray with green trimmings. The green denoted their branch of the army-sharpshoote and their rank was indicated by marks on the collars of their coats. bars for lieutenants and captains. stars for the higher officers.
 T returned to America fin 1859 and again located in Marion. There I painted many portraits of the wealthy
 Mrs. Napoleon Lockett. a beautiful woman of an old Virginia family and the wife of a planter, lived at~Marion Her eldest son married the daughter of Governor Moore and one of her younger sons married one Of the young est daughters of Governor 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; MT. Marschall, we government wants a flag. Will you make us a design? It must not be too unlike the United States flag. but dif- ferent enough to be distinguished at a distance
 T 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 top 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 centre"
 The first design. made by Mir. Mar schall. was adopted by the Confederate government. This fiag-the Stars and Bars-was raised on the staff above the Capitol at Montgomery. Ala, on March {, 1861. by Miss J. c. Tyler of Virginia. granddaughter of John Tyler.
 Continuing his narrative. Mr. Mar schall said; s...-=.
 Mrs. Lockett thanked me for the designs, and started to go. Then she came back, adding: We also want Q design for a uniform, MT. Marschall. Can't you suggest oneT
 "The thought occurred to me of the gray uniforms I had seen worn by the Austrian sharpshooters. made sew eraI rough sketches, indicating the gray color, and also the colors on the collars to denote the branch of the service-buff for officers, yellow for cavalry. blue for infantry. red for ar- tillery, etc.
 Tt did not occur to me then that I had done anything worthy of note ! simply made the sketches at the re- quest of Mrs. Lockett. I knew m" more about them from then until l found that the uniform and one of the flags had been adopted by the Confed- eracy."
 When war was declared MT. Mar schall enlisted as @ private, going with his command to garrison the forts at the mouth of Mobile Bay. He served time and then returned to Marion on a furiough. While at home, on the ad- vice of friend. he employed substi- tute for year and three months. Then