The “Try Us” flag

Each company carried a flag, typically made by ladies in the community, when they left Arkansas to fight in the war. The flag for the “Van Buren Avengers,” the company raised around Crawford County, was presented to them in mid-June on the day they left to rendezvous with other state troops at Washington, Arkansas. Captain John Selden Roane accepted the flag from Julia Stewart. The flag was a variation of the Stars and Stripes, with the words “Try Us” embroidered below the blue field.