Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1912 — Last Flag Out of Alexandria. [ARTICLE]

Last Flag Out of Alexandria.

At a political meeting at Alexandria after the war, Col. Mosby was making a political speech at the court house. “Why,” said he, “my war record is a part of the state’s history. Gentlemen, I carried the last Confederate flag through this very town.” “That is so,” spoke up Fitz Hugh Lee, who was in the audience. "I was here at the time.” “Thank you for your fortunate reoollectlon,” gratefully exclaimed Mosby. “It is pleasant to know that there still live some men who move aside envy and testify to the courage of their fellow-beings. As I say, gentlemen, my war record is a part of the state’s history, for the gentlemen here will tell you that I carried the last Confederate flag through this town.” “That’s a fact,’’ continued Fitz. "I saw you do it. You carried the Confederate flag through this town, but Kilpatrick and Ellsworth were after you, and you carried it so blamed fast one couldn’t have told whether it was the Confederate flag or a smallpox warning.”