5:10 am on Tuesday August 18, 2009
| Posted by Ken Hawkins
Before the secession, this was the first Confederate flag
Image by Flickr user jimmywayne Image by 20090818-flag.jpg
Before there was war, and before South Carolina had seceded, Captain Edward Mills had raised this flag. It would soon be the flag of the Palmetto Guard and then fly above the Confederate-occupied Fort Sumter.
Today the flag lives on as the foreruner the modern South Carolina flag -- before the Civil War the South Carolina flag had only a crescent.
You can learn more about the history of the Palmetto Guard flag in this New York Times clipping from 1875.
Thanks to The Navy Yard at Noisette blog for digging this one up.
