Fort Blakeley Battle Flag returns to Blakeley

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Uploaded by on Apr 14, 2007

This is a video of the unvieling of the 2nd Alabama Infantry Regiment Battle flag that was captured 4/9/1865 by Union troops from Illinois. 142 yrs later it returns to Blakeley.

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  • wow that is so cool! i am an ameteur vexillologist from England with special interst for US flags and flags of the Confederacy! that looks like a beuty!

  • I work on captured Union flags and hopefully we will have a two book series out on captured Union and captured Confederate flags.

    It was very rare, that Union regimental commanders admitted to losing a flag.

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  • How so ironic, I was at the National Archives today and saw that flag "2nd Alabama Inf" as "flag captured". Well it made it to the War Department and should have a black number on it.

  • Great video! Very pathetic!

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