{"title":"War Between The States","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"saint-augustine-blues","title":"Saint Augustine Blues","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The St. Augustine Blues became Company B, Third Florida Infantry, C.S.A.. It belonged to the 3rd FL Infantry, Co. B “Florida Independent Blues” and was presented to the unit by the Ladies of St. Augustine, FL, 1861. The seven stars (with dates of secession on them) represent, SC, MS, FL, AL, GA, LA, and TX\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/civilwartalk.com\/threads\/st-augustine-independent-blues-militia-flag-now-at-the-museum-of-the-confederacy.89177\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eCivil War Talk\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e----\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Saint Augustine Blues were a militia unit formed on May 12, 1860 in St. Augustine, Florida during the period of political instability in the United States preceding the outbreak of the American Civil War. The Blues officially entered the Confederate Army at Ft. Marion on August 5, 1861 and were designated Company B of the recently organized Third Florida Infantry. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Augustine_Blues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eWikipedia\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3x2\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWoven\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHook Backing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Texas 144.1","offers":[{"title":"Historic","offer_id":39363133374530,"sku":"","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black","offer_id":39363133407298,"sku":"","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0010\/3841\/7986\/files\/st-augustine-blues4.jpg?v=1708091869"},{"product_id":"17th-texas-infantry","title":"17th Texas Infantry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The Seventeenth Texas Infantry, a Confederate regiment, was organized at Camp Terry, Austin, Texas, during March 1862. The regiment had ten companies composed of men from Angelina, Bastrop, Bell, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Colorado, Falls, Fayette, Lampasas, Lavaca, Smith, Trinity, Travis, and Williamson counties. The original commander of the Seventeenth Infantry was Col. Robert T. P. Allen, a West Point graduate who had served in the Seminole War and founded Bastrop Military Academy in Bastrop. He was a stern disciplinarian who stressed the need for training of the troops before going into battle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Seventeenth Infantry spent its entire career in the Trans-Mississippi Department and fought and served in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Following its organization and initial training, it was ordered to Little Rock, Arkansas, in August 1862. There it was assigned to the Second Division, Second Corps, Army of the West. It wintered at Camp Nelson in Little Rock and suffered heavy casualties from disease. Benajah Harvey Carroll, a private in the regiment and later a well-known Baptist minister and prohibitionist, stated that the unit lost more men from measles and pneumonia in the winter of 1862–63 than it did from all the battles it fought.\" \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tshaonline.org\/handbook\/online\/articles\/qks12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eLearn More...\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2.25x2 (roughly)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWoven\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHook backing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Texas 144.1","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":7674760233026,"sku":"","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0010\/3841\/7986\/products\/17th-texas.jpg?v=1525226927"},{"product_id":"20th-texas-infantry","title":"20th Texas Infantry","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Twentieth Texas Infantry was organized in the spring of 1862 at Galveston, Texas, to serve in the defense of the state’s coastline. The regiment was made up of primarily middle-aged wealthy men of some level of prominence. The regiment consisted of ten companies, lettered A to K, from the counties of Anderson, Austin, Falls, Galveston, Grimes, Harris, Kaufman, Montgomery, Polk, Robertson, Walker, Waller, Washington, and Williamson. Col. Henry M. Elmore commanded the regiment, and its field officers were Lt. Col. Leonard A. Abercrombie and Maj. Robert E. Bell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the war the regiment spent most of its time serving in and around Galveston. Early in 1863 the men of the regiment were trained to use heavy artillery along the coast. The only combat the regiment took part in was the battle of Galveston on January 1, 1863. On January 3, 1863, a detachment of the regiment also took part in a skirmish at Galveston. Both engagements were Confederate victories. By April 1864 the regiment had twenty-one officers and 622 men present for coastal defense. The Twentieth Texas Infantry was present at Galveston when the Trans-Mississippi Department surrendered on June 2, 1865.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tshaonline.org\/handbook\/online\/articles\/qkt29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eTexas State Historical Association\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3x2\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWoven for detail and clarity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHook backing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Texas 144.1","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12194633449538,"sku":"","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0010\/3841\/7986\/products\/20th-texas.jpg?v=1526589931"},{"product_id":"15th-virginia","title":"15th Virginia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 15th Virginia Infantry was organized in May of 1861 with 476 men from the city of Richmond and from Henrico and Hanover counties. The regiment saw action in the battle of Big Bethel, one of the wars earliest battles. Upon culmination of the battle, the Regiment was removed to Williamsburg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eIn Williamsburg is one of our country’s oldest universities, the College of William and Mary.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eRobert J Morrison  joined the college as a professor in 1858, prior to that he had helped establish several women’s colleges throughout Virginia. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eUpon witnessing the arrival of the many young men that made up the 15th Virginia Mr Morrisons’s wife, Cathrine Harrison, decided to sacrifice her wedding dress in order to present to the regiment a flag as thanks for defending the state her family had called home for generations. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eThe Regiment fought with the Army of Northern Virginia up through the battle of Antietam, where it lost 49 percent of its men. It thereafter served with the Army of the Tennessee for the remainder of the war. The regiment was surrendered at Appomattox on April 9th, 1865.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eIn 1911, the veterans held a reunion in Williamsburg. In an address presented by J. Staunton Moore, the flag was remembered:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003e\"The survivors of the Fifteenth Virginia recall with feelings of pride, that when we arrived in your beautiful and hospitable city fifty years ago, Mrs. Morrison, one of your patriotic ladies on the Campus of old William and Mary presented us with the first flag that ever floated over our heads. It was made from her wedding gowns; It’s colors were white and blue silk, emblematic of the purity of heart of the giver, whose blessings she invoked on our undertaking. 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The source of the Rappahannock River is close to Chester Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains and very near Front Royal Virginia. As the river leaves the mountains eastward, it runs nearly the entire northern part of the state before turning south and emptying into the Chesapeake Bay just south of the Potomac River, defining the southern edge of the middle “neck” in southeast Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Rappahannock Cavalry was sometimes called, “The Old Guard”, officially known as Co. B of the Virginia 6th Cavalry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Va. 6th Cavalry was organized in November of 1861. The unit played an important role in the final action of the battle of Front Royal on May 23rd 1862. The federal army was retreating up the Winchester Turnpike, Stonewall Jackson shouted to the Commander of the 6th Cavalry, Thomas S. Flournoy, “ They have two pieces of artillery, go and take them!!” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlournoy closed in north of Cedarville. The Union captian leading the retreat, George Smith, recorded that , “ A wild shout was heard and the rebel cavalry came crashing into our lines, cutting right and left, showing no quarter while displaying a black flag with a red sun!”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Commander of the Rappahannock Cavalry, Daniel A Grimsley, led the attack. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlournoy reported to Richmond that “ Co. 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This is the case with the flag of the 1st Florida Battalion Special Cavalry, called the Cow Cavalry. It appeared in the battles in Duvall County, Florida, but the exact battle and manner it was recovered is still a matter of debate. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe Cow Cavalry Battalion was organized by the Confederate Army to protect one of the most critical supply items from Union raiders: cattle and their hides and meat. At the Museum of Florida History, the canvas sleeve has a brief inscription, “Captured near St. John’s River.” The river, in northeast Florida, was a hub for Confederate blockade runners and major site for Confederate artillery batteries. One of the theories maintains that the flag was captured by Union forces as the confederate forces for the 1st Florida Battalion Special Cavalry were attempting to evacuate their heavy artillery from St. John’s Bluff. Upon the flag’s seizure at the battery, a Union officer presented it to Rear Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont as a trophy for the victory. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eAn alternative theory has a more maritime based story. It states the flag bears a similarity to the Tampa Bay flag, and indicates an existing record of capture from a confederate ship. Many also associate the flag with South Carolina due to the crescent moon, and the vessel it was captured from may have had ties to the state. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo this day, the flag is part of the Texas State Library \u0026amp; Archives. 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