Finding a missing Flag
The other day, a Facebook Post popped up with a memory from Sept 4, 2012. In it, I announced to my friends and comrades that I had discovered a "missing" flag belonging to the 6th North Carolina State Troops that had recently been conserved and was on display at Gettysburg. I had read about this in the 8/30/2012 edition of the “Hanover Evening Sun”. I don't recall now how I first stumbled upon this article, but I know I was very excited to find it. I probably found it by my routine searching of the internet for items related to the 6th North Carolina State Troops at lunch time. The article explained that the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Centerwas becoming more dynamic,rotating exhibits and acquiring new and borrowed artifacts. "The new exhibits also will include an artifact from the Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation in Virginia. A flag representing the 6th North Carolina that was carried during the Battle of Gettysburg is on loan from its for