Flag, Southern Rights - Reproduction

 
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Flag, Southern Rights - Reproduction
Flags, Southern Rights
Flags, Southern Rights

Flag, Southern Rights - Reproduction

Object number1960.015.00
Dateca 1900
OriginDeQueen, Arkansas
MediumCotton
Dimensions30 13/16 × 55 9/16 in. (78.2 × 141.2 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
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  • Flag
  • Flag
DescriptionA reproduction Southern Rights flag dated to the early 1900s. It is a cotton flag with three horizontal bars-red, white and red. The canton is blue with "Southern Rights" in capitol white letters. A large white five-pointed star is in the center of the canton. Below the star are a white sword and pistol crossed. This Confederate reunion flag was used by the DeQueen, Sevier County, Nannie A. Dooley Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) in the early 1900s.

This replica and the design from which it was made were deposited with the Arkansas Historic Commission (now Arkansas State Archives) by Mrs. Otis Wingo. This design is loosely modelled in that of a flag given to the 1st Company of 106 men formed in the early part of May 1861. They were presented with the flag when they were stopped for ceremonies in Paraclifta, Arkansas. They were then informed that the Federal had evacuated the fort; they were then ordered to Ft. Walker in the border between Benton County and the Cherokee Nation, but were soon on the march to fight in Missouri. The pattern was essentially the same, except that the original had a bowie knife rather than the sword.
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