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The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
ithout the complication of any painting, which, besides the difficulty of correct execution, soon rots the bunting. The proportions, while most pleasing to the eye, possess the virtue of simplicity — the white below and on side of the union being same width as the red bar. They have been approved by some of the bests artists in the Confederacy, and, after careful examination, have been pronounced correct by some of the most experienced officers of the navy.--such as Commodore Forrest, Captain S. S. Lee, Captain Mason and Captain W. H. Parker, the latter being at the head of the Confederate States Naval Academy. Your committee has been furnished, by the Quartermaster-General, with a model flag, made in strict accordance therewith. It may be proper to add, that this improvement of the flag is advocated by almost the entire Richmond press. I hope it will be the pleasure of your committee to recommend the passage of the bill, and that it will be adopted by Congress in time for the sig