To: EternalVigilance
You do know that all of those flags from the Confederacy in that link you posted were captured, don't you? Iowa had no companies in the Confederate Army. They probably did have some individual soldiers, though. I think all of the states were probably represented in both armies.
One of those First National Confederate flags was apparently captured in Cairo, Illinois down at the bottom of Egypt. It's still pretty well Southern down there. Illinois is a very long state. It runs from the equivalent latitudes of Boston, Massachusetts to Portsmouth, VA. Cairo, Illinois is south of Richmond, VA where the capitol of the Confederacy was. Illinois definitely had native sons on both sides of the war.
To: TheMidnightPoet
Yes Illinois did; but Iowa much less so.
Now Missouri? They were a hotbed of rebels...
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