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  • Time lifts high a Civil War banner (18th NC Regimental Flag)

    06/30/2008 12:35:57 PM PDT · by MplsSteve · 64 replies · 173+ views
    Raleigh (NC) News-Observer ^ | 6/30/08 | Josh Shaffer - Staff Reporter
    A woolen flag with cotton stars flew the night Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson caught a bullet in the arm -- a quiet witness to one of history's great accidents. You can see it inside a case on the third floor of the N.C. Museum of History, hanging over a Confederate ammunition chest recovered from a Johnston County farm: the flag carried by the regiment that inadvertently shot the man who was arguably the South's No. 2 general. The museum just bought the flag for a price Curator of Military History Tom Belton would describe only as a bargain. Any price...