Wilson's Creek Confederate Flag, Wilson's Creek National Battlefield 9/7/2013

            The display reads:
The flag on your right is a Confederate First National or "Stars and Bars" pattern. It was recovered on a portion of the battlefield used as a campsite by Texas, Arkansas and Missouri cavalry units, including the Third Texas Cavalry, First Arkansas Mounted Rifles, First Arkansas Cavalry (State Troops) and Brown's and Major's Missouri State Guard Cavalry. 
Theodore Cline Albright, a private in Company C, 1st U.S. Cavalry Regiment, was temporarily detached from his company and served with Company C, 2nd U.S. Dragoon Regiment at the Battle of Wilson's Creek. He described how he found the flag in an interview in 1883: 
"In the confusion of the battle or skirmish I was unhorsed and the animal ran off into the woods. I stooped to pick up a rebel cavalry guidon and came very near being shot by a big German who did not know me as a federal from the fact that my cap having been lost I replaced it with a 
Confederate cap." 
According to Albright family stories, Albright lost one of the flag's stars as a souvenir to his company commander, and apparently lost a few other pieces to souvenir hunters as well. He brought the remainder of the flag home to St. Louis after his discharge in November 1861. Albright died in 1903. 

"Wilson's Creek National Battlefield preserves the site of the Battle of Wilson's Creek. Fought on August 10, 1861, it was the first major American Civil War engagement west of the Mississippi River. The Confederate's failure to exploit their victory here resulted in keeping Missouri in the Union. Major features include a 5-mile automobile tour loop, the restored 1852 Ray House, and "Bloody Hill," the scene of the major battle. The site is located just southwest of the city of Springfield, in southwestern Missouri."   wiki

   

Taken in: United States / Missouri / Brookline Township / Wilsons Creek (show map)

Taken on: September 7, 2013

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