This image on the Marietta Daily Journal website shows rare Confederate battle flag recently returned home to Cobb County following repairs in West Virginia.
In February 2010, the 65th Georgia Infantry flag — complete with 41 bullet holes and blood stains — first came into the possession of Kennesaw’s Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History. After a thorough conservation process over 13 months, the flag is now being prepared for public viewing.
“It went through quite an ordeal to be restored and conserved to come back to us,” said Melinda Senn, the museum’s curator.
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