File:Flag of Virginia (1879).png

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English: The flag was carried in Washington D.C. in a parade by a Virginia Home Guard unit, it caused quite a stir by many in the crowd for not being an American flag. That a committee was formed too banned any flag that was not the American flag from being used in a parade in D.C. The flag was described as: "...a blue flag with the coat-of-arms of Virginia painted on it in gold.."
Date
Source Chicago daily tribune, April 12, 1879, Page 7
Author Tablelegs6

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Virginia flag from the 1879

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