National Vice Cammander Fae Casper, DOSC Commander Bob Scherer,
Post 48 Vice Commander Richard Hall, and District 5 Commander Jack Wright
as Post 48 receives its 6th in a row 100% membership award with ribbon
American Legion
Post 48
Chesnee, SC 29323
| June 2, 2017 - Department of S. C. Convention Post 48 Award |
National Vice Cammander Fae Casper, DOSC Commander
Bob Scherer,
Post 48 Vice Commander Richard Hall, and District 5 Commander Jack Wright
as Post 48 receives its 6th in a row 100%
membership award with ribbon
Brandywine
Flag
The Brandywine flag was a banner carried by Captain Robert Wilson's company of
the 7th Pennsylvania Regiment. The company flag received the name after it was
used in the Battle of Brandywine, September 11, 1777. The 7th Pennsylvania Flag
may have been one of the first American flags to feature stars and stripes,
although it was a militia company's flag, not a flag of Washington's army. Other
stories indicate that the flag may have actually flown earlier, at the Battle of
Cooch's Bridge in Delaware on 3 September 1777. Captain Wilson may have also
brought it to the Battle of Paoli on 21 September and the Battle of Germantown
on 4 October.
copyright A. L. Post 48 Chesnee 2017
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