The news release said the flag was created by the women of Manitowoc County in 1861, after there was a ... Manitowoc County Historical Society celebrates Civil War flag with ceremony reenactment ...

The makeshift flag soldiers at Fort Sumter used to signal their surrender to the Confederate army, kick-starting the American Civil War will be sold this month at an auction house in Greenville.

Library of Congress Though the confederates had bombarded Fort Sumter two months earlier, signaling the start of the Civil War, there had ... On June 11, 1861, delegates from 32 counties in ...