July 10, 19981 - “Pvt. Marshall Sherman of St. Paul captured this flag from the 28th Virginia Infantry at Pickett’s Charge. Many years later the flag came into the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society."
"In June 1998 the flag became the subject of a peaceful, though emotionally charged, disagreement between Virginians and Minnesotans. A Civil War re-enactment group in Roanoke asked the Society to relinquish the flag, citing a 1905 Congressional resolution that ordered the War Department to return all captured Civil War flags in its possession. Some members of the First Minnesota Volunteer re-enactment group took immediate exception, arguing that the flag should remain in Minnesota to honor the soldiers who fought and died at Gettysburg. In its [July 10, 1998] report on the dispute, the Minnesota Attorney General’s office concluded the Virginia group had ‘offered no persuasive legal reasoning for any claim of right to the flag and [the Minnesota Historical Society] is not legally required to return the flag to it.’”2
1https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.history.war.us-civil-war/ZbLGLlyldwE
2Minnesota History Center Civil War Exhibit; March 2–Sept. 8, 2013
Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain Feb. 18, 2014,
as long as acknowledgement included.
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