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Article: NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY RETURNS CIVIL WAR FLAG TO RHODE ISLAND
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- September 6, 2009
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RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 3 -- The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources issued the following news release:
The North Carolina Museum of History has returned a Civil War flag of Company L, First Rhode Island Cavalry to its home state. The V-shaped flag, called a guidon, was captured by the 63rd North Carolina Troops (Fifth North Carolina Cavalry) on June 17, 1863, during the Battle of Middleburg, Virginia. The battle was part of the Gettysburg campaign, a series of battles in June to July during Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's movement through Virginia toward Pennsylvania.
The silk, striped guidon of Company L, with stars and letters on a field of blue, was donated to the Museum of ...
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