| 1. | Black Flag. | 4. | State and Regiment unknown. [Captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, by the 60th Regiment of New York Volunteers] |
| 2. | Alabama Flag. | ||
| 3. | Palmetto Flag. | 5. | State Colors of North Carolina. |
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With the exception of the State colors, the Union flags bear fewer mottoes. Many are fashioned of the finest fabrics, touched with the most exquisite tints. They need no florid and sensational sentence. Enough, that they bear the potent and silent stars of indissoluble union:
“When Freedom, from her mountain height,
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night,
And set the stars of glory there;
She mingled with the gorgeous dyes
The milky baldrick of the skies,
And striped its pure celestial white