September 19, 2012

Many of the Arkansas Confederate regiments serving in the Army of Tennessee during the Civil War carried a flag designed by Lieutenant General William J. Hardee. A number of the flags were captured during the war and held by the War Department until the early twentieth century. At that time, several of the old banners, including the one carried by the combined 6th and 7th Arkansas, were returned to the state. Today, those flags are a part of the collection at the Old State Museum in Little Rock (Pulaski County).