Small cotton and wool flag dropped during Quantrill's raid on Olathe on September 7, 1862. The flag resembles the Confederate First National Flag, nicknamed the "Stars and Bars," however, the canton displays either a fist or palmetto tree and "Quant" for Quantrill.

Picturing the War
Border Ruffians
Guerrillas
Bushwhackers
Bleeding Kansas, Bloodletting Missouri
Quantrill's Raid on Olathe

Olathe, Kansas

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Kansas Historical Society

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