From the Richmond Dispatch, 4/4/1863, p. 1, c. 4

Captured Flags - The walls of the office at the Libby Prison are now adorned with a large number of flags captured from United States troops, among which are five fine silk ones and two guidons. The flags are of the Star and Stripe pattern, and one of them taken at Vicksburg is spattered with blood.

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