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Above: This flag was made for the 31st Alabama Reenactors. This battle flag of the 31st Alabama Volunteer Infantry was styled after the First Nation Flag of the Confederate States of America. The canton contains 13 stars, a cross, and the inscription "GOD AND OUR NATIVE LAND" in letters 2.375" high. On the center stripe appears the inscription "THIRTY FIRST ALABAMA" in letters 4.5" high. The flag was captured by Private Albert G. Trussel of Company G, 17th Iowa Volunteer Infantry at Champion Hills, Mississippi on May 24, 1862. The actual flag is still in Iowa at the State Archives. We are interested in the return of the flag to Alabama to be placed in our State Archives. |
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