Fabric from "Star-Spangled Banner" Goes to Auction-- Part 3: Pieces Given to Cornelius Attwood for Civil War Service.

These two pieces of the flag were given to General Attwood for his service with the  25th Massachusetts in the Civil War.  There are also other flag fragments from flags associated with him.  The scraps in question from the Fort McHenry flag were probably given to him by his friend George Preble who looked after the flag in the 1870s.

About eight feet of the original Fort McHenry flag is gone and believed to have been given to war heroes,

Cornelius Gilbert Attwood was given the pieces which were taken care of by him and his family ever since.

The auction was May 11.

--Brock-Perry