PULASKI'S LEGION

Raised principally in the Baltimore, MD area, this banner was made for and presented to the brave Count Pulaski by the Moravian sisters at Bethlehem, PA after he raised and organized an independent corps of sixty-eight horse and two hundred foot soldiers in Baltimore in 1778.  Pulaski received the banner gratefully and bore it gallantly through many battles until he fell at Savannah, GA in the autumn of 1779.  The banner was saved by his lieutenant and eventually reached Baltimore after the close of the War.