Imagine a red handkerchief with a broad white bar stretching diagonally across it from one corner to the other and a similar bar crossing the first from the opposite corners, with a blue shield at the point of the intersection, on which a yellow spot represents the sun, and you have the flag.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862 p. 1
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