The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-16

{ then as far away from home as l cared to be, and so declined to go. I became acquainted with one of the teachers in
 the female seminary at Marion, Ala, ana learned that it was one of the garden
 spots of the south Wealthy planters lived there; it was 8 seat of learning and claimed as citizens many of the oldest and aristocratic southern families. decided to go to Marion. and go l did. I became a teacher at the semin-
 ary there, where I taught painting, violin, piano. guitar and the French and Ger man languages.
 My studies In Europe of drawing and
 painting now served me we'll came over here on an old sailing vessel, and well 1 do remember to this day how I
 had to draw the picture of every mem
 Der of the crew from captain to hum-
 blest sailor. [ had been in this country one year when my brother arrived here from Prussia.
 Tn 1857 returned to Prussia and re- maired in Prussia for two years con tinuing my studies of art studied both in Munich and Italy. It was while re- turning from Italy and passing through
 Austria that I saw the uniaorm which some years later was to furnish me with design for the southern Confederate uni form.
 
 tial music came to me. On searching out found that party of sharpshoot- CTS belonging to the Austrian army were passing.
 "'What splendid soldiers and what no- ble uniforms?' was my involuntary com ment as I saw them. Well might this be said. They were all great, manly sol- diers and were dressed in the striking
 uniform of gray, with green trimmings. Thn al, hros, nt, YlF l,, army-the sharpshooters-and their rank was indicated by marks on the collars of their coats, bars for lieutenants and cap- tains, stars for the higher officers. T returned to America in 1859 and again located in Marion. There I painted many portraits of the wealthy planters and members of their families, as well as of other prominent people of the south. An drew Moore was then judge at Marion. He afterwards became war governor of Alabama, and was one of the most i'm. portant men in thoses days in our part of the country
 Mrs. Napoleon Lockett, a beautiful southern woman of an old Virginia farni- ly and the wife of wealthy planter, lived at Marion Her eldest son married the eldest daughter of Governor Moore, and one of her younger sons married one of the younger daughters of Governor Moore.
 Soon came the first notes of war. Mrs. Lockett was as loyal daughter as the south had, ande was much interested in it's affairs then. She came to me one day and said: MT Marschall. we have seeded, and the Confederate government wants a flag. Will you make us de- sign? It must not be too unlike the United States flag, but different enough to be distinguished at a distance "At once I took pencil and paper and made three different designs The first was of two red stripes and one of white, with a blue field bearing seven white stars-indicating the number of states that had then seceded-in the upper left hand corner. The second design was the same except that the blue field with stars was 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 center.'' It is matter of historical fact that 1 this first design, made by MT. Mar i scha1l, was the flag adopted by the | Confederate government. It is also well | known to those familiar with south ern history that this flag-the stars and bArs-was placed on the staff above the capitol at Montgomery, Ala, 1 on March 1, 1861, by Miss J. c. Tyler of Virginia. She was the granddaugh-