Actually, I had a couple of customers in from Richmond about 7 years ago and they had a Saturday stay over so we went down to O'Garas and got liquored up on a Saturday afternoon. After some discussion, we decided to go down to the Historical Society and steal the Stars and Bars back for the Virginny Rebs!!! We were serious about doing it, but apparently it's locked in a sealed steel vault about three stories below ground. We basically wandered around like three Alzheimer's patients until a security guard kicked us out. It's fairly secure from seizure. Good fun, they were great folks. Those guys were game faced and ready to rock, too. It's not smack talk material with them. We actually went to a cash machine and got bail money before our assault! Yikes.
We should have returned the flag to the Virginia contingent three years ago. It's an important icon to a lot of folks down there, and up here it's virtually non-existent to our residents. It was a disrectful gesture IMO. Lots of brave kids from both sides died in that battle, it's no disrepect to the Minnesota dead to return a symbol of their kin's sacrifice back to them. I asked Terwilliger about, and I guess it was decided to deny Virginia's request in some committee. Stupid stuff.