Hi to All, I came across the following item of interest recently in a book called: Quilts from the Civil War, by Barbara Brackman. Thought those of you in this family might enjoy reading it if you didn't know already::: Pg. 92: "PALMYRA MITCHELL of Union Mills, Missouri, held Confederate sentiments in a state occupied by Union troops. She was in her late twenties during the War, married to miller JOHN W. MITCHELL, a Kentuckian. Her family recalled the story she had told them about the day a group of Union soldiers rode up to her farm and demanded to see a Union flag. When the Mitchells explained they had none, they were told to find a flag soon----the soldiers would be back. If no flag flew, the house would be burned. Palmyra ran to her scrap bag and found enough red, white and blue fabric to make a small flag. She quickly pieced thirteen stripes of Turkey red calico and white. On a patch of blue cotton she appliqued a large white star surrounded by thirteen smaller stars. She repeated the blue field and stars on the back so the flag was reversible. On the side -- the edge with the stripes and not the stars she added two loops for hanging. When the Union soldiers returned, the Mitchells were displaying the proper flag and their home was spared. The loops indicate that they flew it upside down with the stars at the bottom, but the Army seems not to have noticed her small rebellion. The flag was passed down in the family, and in recent years descendants gave it to Missouri's Weston Historical Museum where it is on display. Although the Turkey red is still bright, the figures in the red calico are rotting away, making the little flag extremely fragile. One way to conserve such fragile textiles is to copy them as Sharon Rush has done in her 1996 copy (page 92)." Enjoy, June.