Fort Mercer Flag War of 1812 The Kentuckians could not have

The Kentuckians could not have picked a harder-fighting unit to join

That would soon change

state that it is an "accepted fact” that they were all made in South Carolina

South Carolina was the first to secede and declare its independence following Lincoln’s election as president the previous November

Fort Mercer Flag War of 1812 The Kentuckians could not haveThe Fort Mercer Flag is a historical variant of the early Stars and Stripes, distinguished by its inverted color scheme of thirteen alternating blue and white stripes surmounted by a red canton containing thirteen white five pointed stars arranged in a circle, flown over the Continental Army's Fort Mercer during the Battle of Red Bank on October 22, 1777.[Built as an earthen redoubt on the New Jersey shore of the Delaware River to obstruct British