Description: In April of 1861 as the 5th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, having been mustered were about to enter their heroic duties in the Civil War, the following event was chronicled on this historic and rare Real Photo Postcard. E. K. Davis, a former Guardsman, one of the original Company D, 5th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, though he had been transferred to a Charlestown company (K) and was now infusing his zeal into the hearts of his old Haverhill associates, remarked to his sister, Mrs. Daniel Buswell, “Nancy, we have no flag and no war clothes to wear. This good woman, a patriotic seamstress, replied, “You shall have a flag, if I have to make one.” The anxious yet doubting brother said, “You can’t do it, Nancy; you haven’t time, for it is now Wednesday, and we shall have to start Friday. “I’ll find time, if I have to work day and night;” and this she did literally, working continuously fifty-six hours, with only two hours for sleep in that long interval. It was “Stitch, stitch, stitch,” but not in “poverty, hunger and dirt,” for in her own comfortable home she was not repeating the sad lines of Hood, but rather, from ribbons of red, white and blue, she was fashioning the stars and stripes of her country’s flag with her needle, that most delicate of weapons, proving it the fit companion of sword and bayonet, and herself a Haverhill heroine, unequaled since the days of Hannah Dustin. The wonder is that Whittier, with his rare eye and ear for patriotic incident, did not make Nancy Buswell and her flag a companion picture to “Dame Barbara” and her “silken scarf” which she shakes forth with such royal will.”
Price: 125 USD
Location: Escondido, California
End Time: 2024-03-31T20:14:26.000Z
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Theme: Militaria
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
