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Tennessee.a vOFFICIAL FLAG OF HOOD’S FIFTHTEXAS BRIGADE ON DISPLAY ATOFFICE OF COMMISSIONER SMITHAUSTIN, Oct. 2 *. — Lon A.Smith, railroad commissioner, has on display in his office at the_capital the flag of the Wfth Te*“ Regiment of Infantry, Hood s Brigade. Army of Northern \ *rgima.This flag. Commissioner bmith i stated, is a contribution from the survivors of 'his famous brigade.The flag, worn and battle-scarred reposes in a new cedar chest bearing this inscription: ‘‘This case is given in memory of Robert A. Brantley, Sr., who bore this tlaginto the baptism of fire at GainesMill.First At Gaine* Mill.Commissioner Smith gives thisbrief history of the flag: This flag was made by Mrs. M. J. Young of Houston, May, 1862, and sent to the Fifth Texas by Bob Campbell, one of the first volunteers, Company A, Fifth Texas The flag saw the first service at Games Mill, June 1862. George Onder-donk, Company A, was the lirst fhvg-bearer* At the beginning ot the famous charge of Hood’s Brigade at Gaines Mill, Onderdonk was wounded and Bob Brantley it seized the flag without permitting it to touch the ground, and boreit gallantly throughout the charge.The flag was borne in 27 pitchedbattles; sometimes in defeat, sometimes in victory, from Gaines Mill to Appomattox,Official Brigade FUf.At Gettysburg, Hood designat-ed this as the official flag of his brigade. It withstood fire of shot and shell at Little Round Top. Fourteen men were killed while upholding it, and 47 were shotdown beneath its folds.It saw service for the last time at Derbvtown, October 7, 1864, witnessing the closing chapter of Grant’s “on to Richmond campaign’LFoirorJobwewitsa idiomeThis flag was• ■Hood's Texas Brigade at their annual meeting here last June by I)r. S. O. Young of Houston, lus-torian of the Brigade. Dr. Young’smother was maker of the tlag. Since that time it has been m Bryan in custody of the Chamber of Commerce, and on Thursday was sent to Austin in charge of M. L. Barker, who left it with Lon A. Smith to be placed in the Texas Confederate Museum, Mrs. Forest H. Farley, regent.a)(1tlflt;s
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Bryan Daily Eagle
Bryan, Texas, US
Fri, Oct 23, 1925
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