Re: Carrying Flags
"While preparing to leave Asheville, the Buncombe Riflemen received new Confederate colors, a gift from six young ladies of Asheville. The daughters of militia Col. Nicholas Woodfin and four of their friends stitched the flag, using material from their own silk dresses. Miss Anna Woodfin and her father presented the flag to Captain W.W. McDowell and the Riflemen in a public ceremony that moved the stoutest heart to sympathy and tears. The Buncombe Riflemen later became the color company for the state's first regiment(1st NC Volunteers) and carried this flag on the first battlefield of the Civil War."(Bethel)
"More Terrible Than Victory" by Craig Chapman
Mark Berrier
North State Rifles
"While preparing to leave Asheville, the Buncombe Riflemen received new Confederate colors, a gift from six young ladies of Asheville. The daughters of militia Col. Nicholas Woodfin and four of their friends stitched the flag, using material from their own silk dresses. Miss Anna Woodfin and her father presented the flag to Captain W.W. McDowell and the Riflemen in a public ceremony that moved the stoutest heart to sympathy and tears. The Buncombe Riflemen later became the color company for the state's first regiment(1st NC Volunteers) and carried this flag on the first battlefield of the Civil War."(Bethel)
"More Terrible Than Victory" by Craig Chapman
Mark Berrier
North State Rifles
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