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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Confederate States of America (search)
mminger made a speech on presenting these models. Then a committee of one delegate from each State was appointed to report upon a device for a national flag and seal. Brooke, of Mississippi, offered a resolution to instruct the committee to report a design as similar as possible to that of the United States, making only such changes as should give them distinction. He eulogized the old flag, and was severely rebuked for uttering sentiments which were regarded as almost treasonable. W. Porcher Miles, of South Carolina, chairman of the committee, protested against the resolution and the utterances of the member. He gloried, he said, more, a thousand times, in the palmetto flag of his State. He had regarded from his youth the Stars and Stripes as the emblem of oppression and tyranny. Brooke withdrew his motion. Mrs. C. Ladd, of South Carolina, presented a model, through W. W. Boyce, tricolored, with a red union, seven stars, and the crescent moon. In her letter accompanying the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Eagan, Charles Patrick, 1841- (search)
Eagan, Charles Patrick, 1841- Military officer; born in Ireland in January, 1841; served through the Civil War in the 1st Washington Territory Infantry; was commissioned 2d lieutenant 9th United States Infantry in 1866; and became brigadiergeneral and commissary-general May 3, 1898. During the American-Spanish War he was in charge of the commissary department of the army, and in January, 1899, was tried by court-martial for criticising General Miles during an investigation into the character of supplies furnished to the army during the war; was suspended from rank and duty for six years on Feb. 9; and was restored and immediately retired Dec. 6, 1900.