Did You Know That Both Sides Used Red, White and Blue Flags?

An interpretive note on Civil War banners, explaining that the Confederacy's first flag so resembled the U.S. Stars and Stripes that smoke-filled battlefields like Resaca made friend and foe dangerously hard to tell apart.

Did You Know That Both Sides Used Red, White and Blue Flags? is a historical marker in Resaca, Gordon County. It is one of 65 historical markers documented in Gordon County, among 104 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 34.5956, -84.9622 near Resaca. The nearest cataloged historic site is Site of Action — Judah's Division (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Picturing a 19th-century Battle, Resaca Battlefield State Historic Site, and Enduring the Battle of Resaca.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.