BUNKER HILL FLAG

No original flag from the Battle of Bunker Hill has survived, although there are post-War descriptions of three flags reportedly flown there.  Two of the three are versions of the New England pine tree design.  The third was a scarlet standard of the Third Connecticut Regiment (elsewhere on this Web page).  Possibly a fourth, a white flag with the motto "An Appeal to Heaven" (elsewhere on this Web page) was also there.

The above version is that described to Lossing, about 1850, by "an intelligent old lady (Mrs. Manning)" whom he saw between the Brandywine and Kennett Square.  Apparently her father was in the Breed's Hill redoubt and helped hoist the blue-field flag depicted above.