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Show OLD WAS BANNiR CAUSES TEARS Chicago, Nov. 29. -Seeing for the first Mmo ln3t night the bullet-lorn, remnant pfia flag which wa.s the standard of his regiment, since it was captured before Atlanta, Ga Jnlv 22, JSCi, Captain E. B. David Jast 'surviving 'sur-viving officer of the Thirtieth Illinois Infantry burled his face in the banner and wept. - Captain David saw the flag fall In tho hands of three colorbearers, who, one after the other, were killed in battle. bat-tle. In the same fight the colonel and J 10 men were captured and the ic- fmalnder of the lcglment practically r annlhl atcd. The emblem last nighl draped the commanders' ennir at .Memorial hall. Captain Daud, vi.o lives at Aledo, 111., had been cal'cd upon lo receive the flag from Conlodcrate camp No. 8 nl to present It- to Adjutant General Frank S Dickson, representing the state of Illinois. Tho banner was foun.l a bhorl lime ago among the relics of tho late Confederate Con-federate General Hardee. His daughter daugh-ter presented it to Private John S Laird or Company A, Twenty-seventh Tennessee inranlry, C. S. A., who had captured 51 and Mr. Lelrd sent it lo C-nfedciate post No. S in Chicago to bo lcstoio'l Women of Sangamon county, Illinois, Illi-nois, made and presontod this banner lo the regiment when they loft Springfield Spring-field in ISfJI It fluttered in victory until un-til tho disastrous clash before Atlanta. |