Published for the Centennial by Harper & Row and obtained as an add on from a PBS comrade for the shelf of the old soldiers' home, this is a reference book containing the details of the size, display, and design of our flag over the years. There are many color plates, tables, and a few endnotes.
Looking for sales in the South, the brief chapter on the CSA flag makes nice: "Although the political unity they symbolized had but a short and embattled existence, the flags of the Confederacy are proud relics of a cause for which thousand of valiant men fought and died." I would agree with my great-great grandfather who supposedly considered it a 'rich man's war and a poor man's fight.'
Index.
(My review is of the 1961 edition)
Looking for sales in the South, the brief chapter on the CSA flag makes nice: "Although the political unity they symbolized had but a short and embattled existence, the flags of the Confederacy are proud relics of a cause for which thousand of valiant men fought and died." I would agree with my great-great grandfather who supposedly considered it a 'rich man's war and a poor man's fight.'
Index.
(My review is of the 1961 edition)
