Woman's enterprise., 1921-12-16

Fl1tV one years ago, NOltn Naio
lint gave to Dixie the First National
Flag of the Confederate States of
America.
The representatives of the seven
States which had seeded, were gath
cred at Montgomery, Alabama, when
they decided to go it alone if nee
csSary and organize a NEW COUN-
TRY, with a New Flag. They form
ed a Constitution of "Native White
CtiZens,' and advertised for a flag.
In lS55-56, | was living at Warren,
Ohio, the headquarters Of the under
ground railroad, and from that time,
| kept in touch with all the great
events that FORCED US INTO THE
WAR. | was an original secession
ist
Having been with Taylor in 1916
4S, in that war that gave the South
west, from the Rio Grande to the Pa
citic to the United States, and with
Albert Sidney Johnston, in Utah in
1858, knew that a soldiers flag
should have the deepest, truest sig
nlfcance, not be simply bending Of
bright colors. His flag is his inspir-
alton. It stands for HOME, KIN
DRED AND COUNTRY. It had so
much meaning to me, hoped my flag
would tell it's story to all who saw it..
SO when | read the advertisement,
"Flag Wanted" I was ready.
In 1861, l was living in Louisburg,
North Carolina and l went to my old
friend, Miss Becky Murphy, (now
Mrs. W. B. Winborne, of Wilson,
North Carolina) and asked her to
put the stitches in little flag for
me, and I tore the Bars and cut the
Stars while she sewed.
The idea of my flag | took from
the Trinity. Three in One. The
Three Bars were State, Church and
Press.
Red represented State: Legislative,
Judiciary and Executive; White for
Church, Father, Son and Holy Gncst;
Red, for Press: Freedom Of Speech,
Freedom of Conscience, Liberty of
Press, all bound together by field
Of blue, the heavens over all, bearing
star for each State in the Confed-
GRAFTON. The seven white stars, all
the same size, were placed in a cir
Gle, showing that each State had
equal Rights and Privileges, irrespec-
tive of size or population. The cir
Gle having neither head nor foot,
signified "You defend Me and III
protect YOU"
If you had been in my place, would
you not have wanted one of your flags
to float in the breeze, whether the
Flag Committee accepted your de-
sign or not, when you had given 50
much time and thought, the best that
was in you, to it?
After the model was gone l asked
Miss Murphy to make me a large flag,
nine by twelve feet, and it was on
Monday, March the eighteenth, 1861,
that l raised this large flag to the
top of a pole one hundred feet high
on the corner of the Court House
Square, in Louisburg, the County
Seat of Franklin, North Carolina.
The dress goods for both model and
large flag bought from Barrow's
store, and the two men that helped
me the most and were the most in.
terested in the flags, were W. J
Green, Colonel C. S. A., and Algy
Strother, now living in Louisburg.
The pole I made by splicing two
tall saplings, gotten from my moth
er's plantation, five miles from town
Over the large flag l had a long
blue streamer, such as an Admira
uses on his ship when homewart
bound, and on this I had a star fo1
the Old North State, for though sht
did not secede until May goth, l knew
| she was "Homeward bound"
March 18th, 1861 was Great Day
for Louisburg, the town was filled
with people from miles around.
This is the story of the "Oid Sc
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