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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Incidents of the occupation of New Orleans. (search)
hauled the flag down, Captain Bell in his diary says that when he offered to Lieutenant Kautz the privilege of hauling down the flag the latter waived the offer in favor of George Russell, boatswain's mate of the Hartford, to whom the honor had been promised.--Editors. took it to the floor below and handed it to Captain Bell, who on our return to the Scene at the City Hall — hauling down the State flag. The local papers spoke of the State flag on the City I-all at the time as the Lone Star flag. General Beauregard, in a letter to Admiral Preble, in 1872, says this flag was adopted in 1861 by the State Convention of Louisiana. It had thirteen stripes, four blue, six white, and three red, commencing at the top, with the colors as written. The Union was red, with its sides equal to the width of seven stripes. In its center was a single pale-yellow five-pointed star.--A. K. ship delivered it to Farragut. Before we ascended to the roof, the mayor informed Captain Bell, in t