The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-08-03

Kansas is % 1-2 bushels.-Topeka,
Kansas, dispatch to Knasas City Star.
we're ordered to employ the Stars and
Stripes.
Europeans All Mixed Up.
So many styles and forms of the
stars and stripes were in existence
in 1897 that certain foreign govern
ments found it necessary to make in
ouiry of this government just what
the official flag was, resulting in the
publication in 1852 of careful study
of the subject by him who later be-
came General Schuyler Hamilton.
It was not until 1912 that definite
specifications were drawn up. Under
President Taft's administration rep
resentatives of the various govern
ment departments conferred on pro-
portions and other details of the ma
tional flag, resulting in an executive
order dated October 29, 1912, which
tended to standardize the Stars and
Stripes, and yet further specifica-
tions were found necessary only re-
Gently.
Mexicans Confront Flag.
The history of our flag indicates
that the Stars and Stripes was not
carried by troops in battle until the
Mexican war in 1S4647.
Several flags of this period are in
the museum collections. Among
them is a flag of thirteen stripes and
stars carried throughout the war by
the battalion of volunteers which en-
listed from Maryland and the District
of Columbia, and the flag of the Com
pany I, Fourth Regiment of lndl-
ana Infantry-thirteen stripes, with
an eagle in the field.
The following ten flags of the col
lection pertain to the Civil war:
Garrison flag of Fort Moultrie, S.
c., lowered when the command evac-
uated that fort to assemble at Fort
Sumter on December 26, 1850.
Boat flag flown by Commander
Charles S. Boggs, United States navy,
when he left the gunboat Varuna,
sunk in an engagement between a
Confederate fotilla and the Union
fleet under Admiral Farragut, below
New Orleans on April "a, 1852.
Signal flag of white cloth with
painted stars and stripes.
Headquarters flag of Major General
Benjamin F. Butler, United States
Volunteers, flown, at Fortress Mon
roe, Virginia, in 1861.
Flag raised at New Orleans by its
citizens upon the occupation of the
city by the Union forces under Major
General Butler on May l, 1852.
Remains of flag carried in three
days. fight at Salem Heights, Va.
May 3-5, 1868, when three color SER
geants were killed, though the ban
ner never faltered or fell to the
ground.
General Hazen's garrison flag
hoisted at Fort McAllister, Ca, after
the surrender of the fort to the
Union army on December 13, 1854.
Flag flown on Kearsarge when it
sank the Alabama, deposited in the
national museum by Lieutenant Her.
bert Winslow, son of Rear Admiral
Winslow, commander of the Kear.
sarge in this action.
Headquarters flag of Major General
E. o. c. Ord, United States army
flown in Richmond, Va, in 1865.
Flag of the First Pennsylvania
Volunteers, found in the capitol al
Richmond in 1865 by Major General
Ord.
Other flags include some from the
Spanish-American war, and the fol.
lowing miscellaneous flags:
A flag owned by Admiral Charles
Wilkes, United States navy; the col
ors carried by Rear Admiral Peary in
his Arctic explorations in 1909; the
flag carried by the Smithsonian Afri'
can expedition under the command o1
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in 1909
1910, and many examples of the
national ensign, which has flown in
so many notable engagements anc
over numerous worthy achievements