Symbolic of the family rifts that formed during the Civil War, this celebrated Alabama company flag was designed by Abraham Lincoln's Confederate half-sisters-in-law. (Photo Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History.) Among the thousands of artifacts at the Alabama Department of Archives and History are eighty-nine Civil War-period flags. Most of these are regimental colors, produced in Mobile, Charleston, Richmond, and Augusta during the last three years of the war. Alabama is fortunate, however, that a significant number of the eighty-eight flags are company flags presented to units early in the war.
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