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
intersection, on which a yellow spot represents the sun, and you have the flag.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, May 17, 1862, p. 2
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