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  • BATTLE-FLAG OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY Blue cross containing thirteen stars; red field, white border. Burnside breech-loading cavalry carbine and Colt's army six-shooter of models used by the author in the service. Post-oak relic containing two cannon-balls and two grape-shot lodged during the battle of Chickamauga, 1863. Thirty years later this souvenir was secured and presented to the author by his friend Dr. Cooper Holtzclaw, of Chattanooga, Tennessee. From With Sabre and Scalpel; the Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon.