Georgia:  Coweta County: Battle Banners of Confederacy Torn for Relics 
3 October 1924

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The Newnan Herald, Friday, October 3, 1924

Battle Banners of Confederacy Torn for Relics

   Minneapolis, Minn. Sept 25, Battle flags of Southern regiments captured by 
the Fourth Minnesota regiment in the Civil War will not be returned to their 
old regiments, veterans of the Fourth Infantry decided at their annual 
reunion here a few weeks ago. 
   A year ago, the regiment voted to cut up the flags of the Thirty-fifth and 
Thirty-ninth Mississippi regiments captured in the battle of Altoona Pass, 
and distribute the pieces to members of the Fourth regiment. This was done.
   Last winter, through a misunderstanding, Governor Russell of Mississippi, 
heard the flags were to be returned and wrote the Fourth veterans thanking 
them. Some suggested the pieces be collected and the flags returned. This 
proposal, however, was voted down.