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The Flags of the Hampton Legion
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Hampton Legion

1st National pattern - presented November 20, 1861 - Camp Lee, Bacon Race, Virginia - by Major Connor on behalf of the "Ladies of Matanzas", Havana, Cuba - via the blockade runner "Theodora" - Captain John N. Maffitt

SC Confederate Relic Room, Columbia, SC



Washington Light Infantry
Company A, Infantry

Made by Miss M.H. Ancrum and the Sisters of the Academy of our Lady of Mercy - for her brother, color bearer James H. Ancrum, Jr. - Presented at Institute Hall in Charleston, SC - by Colonel T.Y. Simonton

Lost



Claremont Rifles
Company G, Infantry

White and gold silk with gold trim and natural color embroidery - Presented January 1861 - by Dr. Nelson Burgess - Statesburg, SC

SC Confederate Relic Room, Columbia, SC



German Volunteers
Company H, Infantry
Company B, Artillery

1st National pattern and German colors - Presented September 1861 - At the hall where Secession Ordinance was passed - by General J.A. Wagner on behalf of the "German Ladies of Charleston" - Received by Captain W.K. Bachman and entrusted to color bearer Anton W. Jager

Confederate Museum, Charleston, SC



Edgefield Hussars
Company A, Cavalry

Blue silk over a cotton center with gold trim - The Hussars originally formed in 1833 - Joined the Legion May 8, 1861 - Led by Captain Matthew Calbraith Bulter

Oakley Park, Red Shirt Shrine, Edgefield, SC



SC Zouave Volunteers
Company H, (2nd), Infantry

A square of blue and white silk, gold trimmed - embroidered by "the Nuns of Columbia" - Presented October 29,1861 - Congaree House, SC College, Columbia, SC - by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, president of the college, on behalf of the "Ladies of Columbia" - to color bearer William G. Gardner

Lost



Beaufort District Troop
Company C, Cavalry

1st National pattern, bunting with random stars- Presented shortly after joining the Legion - Random stars may symbolize the individual sovereignty of each State in the Confederacy

SC Confederate Relic Room, Columbia, SC


Source: The Flags of the Civil War South Carolina by Glenn Dedmondt


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