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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 16: Secession of Virginia and North Carolina declared.--seizure of Harper's Ferry and Gosport Navy Yard.--the first troops in Washington for its defense. (search)
a flag which was composed of the colors red, white, and blue, differently arranged from those in the National flag. The colors were arranged as follows in this flag of the Sovereign State of North Carolina : --The red formed a broad bar running parallel with the staff, on which was a single star, and the dates arranged as seen in the engraving, May 20, 1775, which was that of the promulgation of the so-called Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (mentioned in note 2, page 885), and May 20, 1861, on which day the politicians of North Carolina declared the bond that bound that State to their own chosen Union was forever dissolved. North Carolina flag The Governor of Tennessee (Harris) and a disloyal majority of the Legislature now commenced the work of infinite mischief to the people of their State. Harris called the Legislature together on the 25th of April, and delivered to that body a message, in which he strongly urged the necessity for the immediate secession of the St