Thank you - whew! I thought it was something islamic.
No problem,know what you’re sayin’.
“On September 15, 1775, the local Revolutionary Council of Safety in Charleston drafted then Colonel Moultrie to prepare a flag to display at Fort Johnson on Sullivan’s Island. British war ships waded outside of the port of Charleston, preparing to attack the city.
Inside the fort, the First and Second South Carolina Regiments marshaled forces to prepare for the bombardment and turn back the British invasion.
According to General Moultrie’s memoirs, a flag was needed for the purpose of “signals” to direct American forces during the imminent siege. No national or state flag existed at that time.
Moultrie looked out on his troops and saw they were “clothed in blue” and “wore a silver crescent on the front of their caps.
“I had a large flag made with a crescent on the dexter corner, to be in uniform with the troops,” Moultrie wrote. “This was the first American flag, which was displayed in South Carolina.”