This flag was flying over the meeting hall at Washington on the Brazos on March 1, 1836, where the first Constitutional Convention met for the express purpose of declaring the independence of Texas from Mexico. Sarah Dodson designed the first “Lone Star” flag for her husband Archelaus, a member of Capt. Andrew Robinson’s company of […]

Joanna Troutman, an 18-year-old from Crawford County, Georgia, created this flag for a group of volunteers from Macon, Georgia. It was made of white silk bearing a blue five pointed star with the words “Liberty or Death” on one side and “Where Liberty Dwells there is my country” in Latin on the other. When the […]

It is not generally known that the first Declaration of Independence from Mexico was drawn and signed on the altar of Our Lady of Loreto Chapel at Presidio La Bahia. To celebrate the signing, Capt. Phillip Dimmitt’s volunteers made this flag as Nicholas Fagan cut a sycamore pole staff. They raised the flag and as […]

This flag was created by the ladies of Newport, Kentucky for Sidney Sherman’s Newport volunteers and left with them on their departure to assist the Texians in their fight for freedom. The flag depicts Lady Liberty, wielding a sword and a banner that says “LIBERTY OR DEATH”. Outnumbered again and shouting the battle cry “Remember […]