WC FLAG Returns home

Wilcox County True Blue Flag Returns Home

If you have stories, letters, biographies, pictures of artifacts or of your relative who might have fought under this flag, please send digital copies of them to me and I will post them on this website. Send them to Sharman Ramsey (sharmanramsey@gmail.com). If you have a problem with digitalizing these items contact Don Donald (grsouth@frontiernet.net)

Don Donald, ALC
The Great Southern Land Co., Inc.
#12 Camden Bypass, P.O. Box 427
Camden, AL 36726
1-866-788-0759 or 334-682-9825
FAX: 334-682-9387

The Knife carried by Benjamin Franklin Hardy of the Wilcox True Blues	Talbot home at Canton Bend, Wilcox County	Wilcox County Historical Society Group gathered to welcome flag home	Archivist Ed Shirley speaking on the flag

Bradley Turley with the Flag	Bob, Garland and Don Donald with Flag	Doug and Judi Talbot owners of the home in which the flag was made at Canton Bend.with a picture of the home	Restored Flag

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he Wilcox Historical Society met Thursday, September 18, 2008 at the Canton Bend home known as “River Bluff House”. This home is currently owned by Judi and Doug Talbot of New Orleans, and has been featured in several Pilgrimages. The Talbots graciously agreed to host this late afternoon meeting which started at 2:00 P.M. This meeting was jointly hosted by the Wilcox Historical Society and the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Bob Bradley, Flag Curator of the State of Alabama Department of Archives and History accompanied the “Wilcox True Blues” flag which was sewn on this very property in early 1861. The flag underwent several years of restoration in Maryland, and was returned to the Archives in 2007. This was the first time it has “come home” to Wilcox County since its return from Michigan in 1921. Following Mr. Bradley’s presentation on the restoration effort, refreshments were served. This no-charge event welcomed members and prospective members.