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Historic SC flag to go on display at Citadel home
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A battle flag that traveled to Iowa with a Union soldier at the end of the Civil War will soon be taking a $75,000 trip home to South Carolina.
The red palmetto flag — believed to be the one that flew over Morris Island on Jan. 9, 1861, when a battery of Citadel cadets fired on the supply ship Star of the West — will require special and expensive care, said Ted Curtis,...
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