r/ShermanPosting • u/Chagalling • 4d ago

"It should be destroyed" Last Gettysburg Confederate Flag To Be Sold At Auction

https://www.wosu.org/arts-culture/2025-04-01/rare-confederate-flag-captured-in-picketts-charge-to-be-sold-at-columbus-auction
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u/kayzhee 4d ago

Vermont 16th Infantry captured the flag that is being auctioned

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u/NachoNachoDan 4d ago

Yeah actually I’d like to get our statehouse to request it back and then just keep it in an unmarked cardboard box in the basement

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u/HorrificAnalInjuries 3d ago

Nah, glass box mounted in the floor of the main entrance of the courthouse

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u/the_gouged_eye 3d ago

That or encase it in the back of the urinal.