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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: July 21, 2007
Caption: Crouse House (204 West Main Street)
Additional Description: When the Confederates first arrived in town on September 10, 1862, Nancy Crouse had a large U.S. flag flying from the second floor balcony. Confederate cavalrymen entered the house to remove the flag, but found Mrs. Crouse had wrapped herself in the flag and proclaimed, "You may shoot me, but never will I willingly give up my country's flag into the hands of traitors." Although she would lose the flag after a fight, it was later returned to her when captured at Antietam.
Submitted: July 23, 2007, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p5198
File Size: 1.122 Megabytes

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