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Local women in the Brown Mountain Community in west-central Stokes County made this flag for the Brown Mountain Boys. As part of the Second Battalion North Carolina Infantry, the Brown Mountain boys landed on Roanoke Island on the morning of February 8, 1862, just in time to become part of the Confederate surrender to Federal forces. The flag was taken and kept as a souvenir by a member of the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts. It remained in Massachusetts until its purchase by the North Carolina Museum of History Associates, Inc. in 1987. The flag is based on the pattern of the first national flag of the Confederacy known as the "stars and bars."
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