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The torejmine; was amended by the following act:

The Congress of the Confederate State-, of America do enact. That the flag of the Confederate States shall be as follow-,: The width, two-thirds of its length, with the union (now used as the bat- tle-flag) t(' IK- in width three tilths of the width of the flag, and so proportioned as to leave the length of the field on the side of the union twice the width of the field below it; to have the ground red, and a broad blue saltier thereon bordered with white, and emblazoned with mullets or five-pointed stars, corresponding in number to that of the Confederate States; the field to be white, except the outer half from the Union to be a red bar extending the width of the flag. (Second Congress, second session. Approved March 4, 1865.)

Official statement furnished to the editor of the Richmond Dis- patch.

By authority of the Secretary of War.

F. C. AINSWORTH, Colonel U. S. A., Chief Record and Pension Office.

[From the N. O. Picayune, April 5. 1896.]

THE BATTLE OF SHILOH.

A Graphic Description of that Sanguinary Engagement.

WRITTEN BY GENERAL JOSEPH WHEELER, Now riember of Congress,

Who Commanded a Brigade and Made a Famous Charge at Shiloh under the Direction of General Albert Sidney Johnston.

The following article on the battle of Shiloh was written by Gen- eral Joseph Wheeler, now representing the Eighth Alabama district in the House of Representatives. Although now sixty years of age, General Wheeler is one of the most active members of that body.

He was born at Augusta, Ga., September 10, 1836, graduated at West Point in 1859, was lieutenant of cavalry and served in New- Mexico; resigned in 1861; entered the Confederate army as lieu- tenant of artillery and was successively promoted to the command