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10821
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The battle flag of the Randolph Hornets Company M, 22nd North Carolina Militia has come home again to Randolph County, from whence it departed over one hundred years ago. The flag was presented to the Randolph Historical Society by Dr. and Mrs. Marion B. Roberts, of Hillsborough, and was placed on permanent display in Asheboro. It is known that the flag left Randolph County when the company was mustered into service in 1861, and that it traveled with the Hornets, who fought in every major battle of the Civil War except First Bull run, throughout the war until the surrender at Appomattox, Virginia. Its location thereafter remained a mystery for over one hundred years until it reappeared in the hands of a Civil War collector in Connecticut in the 1960s.
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10844
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On April 16, 1864, Confederate forces previously entrenched at Rodman's Point and Fisher's Hill were evacuated from their positions below Washington, N.C. and were directed to report to General Hoke, whose division was about to march on Plymouth. Hoke ordered General Matt Ransom to march his forces to a point below the town, co-ordinate with Captain James W. Cook, C.S.N., commander of the gun-boat ALEBEMARLE, and to march on Plymouth from all sides to take control of the city. During the battle, the flag of the 16th Connecticut was captured by Private G. M. Williams, Frank O'Brien, and two other unnamed soldiers from the command of Major John H. Burnham. In July of 1884, O'Brien happened upon Burnham while visiting the Union Square Hotel in New York City. Burnham inquired as to the whereabouts of the flag, to which O'Brien responded that he knew its owner and that he would have the flag shipped to Hartford upon his return to Birmingham. The story of its return was printed in the Hartford Times the day after its arrival.
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