Give Civil War Flags to Memorial Hall

Through the kindness of Dean J. H. Ropes '89, of Cotuit, three Civil War flags of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 20th Regiment, will be encased upon the east wall of Memorial Hall. The flags were donated to the Regiment by friends, at its organization in 1861. They have passed into the hands of the University through Colonel William Raymond Lee, commander of the Regiment in 1861, who left them to his former adjutant, Colonel Charles Lawrence Peirson, who in turn left them to the University. Colonel Peirson died recently and his nephew, Professor Theodore Lyman, '97 and Dean Ropes have undertaken to encase the flags for exhibition. The gift is composed of three flags, one a state, one a regimental and the other a national flag. Each flag is appropriately inscribed and will be incased in three gun-wood cases.