This simple dish towel was used as a flag of truce by Confederate troops during Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, and is now on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
This simple dish towel was used as a flag of truce by Confederate troops during Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, and is now on display at the Smithsonian 's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. It is sufficiently humiliating to have had to carry it and exhibit it, fumed the Confederate officer who wielded the flag of truce —now on display at the Smithsonian —at Appomattox Courthouse. To pass safely, Confederate officer Capt.
R. M. Sims carried a fringed white dish towel with three thin red stripes running across the bottom. Now yellowed with age, this often-overlooked artifact played a key role in one of the most pivotal moments in our nation’s history
Confederate Flag Of Truce Appomattox Surrender Smithsonian
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