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Re: Other Sides Account of the Same Event

Hello,

Based on Casey's tactics, the Union drill manual for the war, Union regiments were indeed supposed to have carried two flags - a National color and a regimental color.

It sounds to me that the 27th Illinois lost one of its flags and saved the other from these accounts.

Greg Biggs

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