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The Cumberland Historic Cemetery Organization offers the following items for the designated donation costs as indicated
below. All proceeds are used to help fund the continuing functions of the CHCO. To order the merchandise listed
below, please send a check or money order to:
CHCO
534 A Street
LaVale, Maryland 21502
Make sure to specify the items that you wish to order.
3 x 5 FLAGS
The cost for shipping and handling for one 3 x 5 flag is $3.00.
Each additional 3 x 5 flag is $1.00 a piece.
12 x 8 FLAGS
The cost for shipping and handling for one 12 x 18 flag is
$1.50. Each additional 12 x 18 flag is .50 a piece.
FLAG DESKSETS
The cost for shipping and handling for one deskset is $3.00.
Each additional deskset is 1.00 a piece.
Please allow 3 - 6 weeks for delivery. Items will be shipped via
the U.S. Postal Service.
Current
U.S. 50 Star Flag
Price:
$15.00
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FIRST OFFICIAL UNITED STATES FLAG
 The first official United States flag,
adopted by an Act of Congress on June 14, 1777. According to legend, a group headed by George Washington commissioned Philadelphia seamstress Betsy
Ross to execute their design for presentation to Congress. Nylon construction.
Price:
3 feet by 5 feet - $15.00
12 inches by 18 inches (set of 2) - $5.00
12 inches by 18 inches (single flag) - $3.00
FLAGS OF CONFEDERACY DESK SET
This desk set includes the following Confederate flags: Stars and Bars, Stainless Banner, Third National, Naval
Jack and Battle Flag. Nylon construction.
Price: $20.00
FLAGS OF OUR COUNTRY
A special selection of ten flags which have played important roles in the unfolding of our Nation’s
history. The following flags are included: St. George Cross, King’s Colors, British Red Ensign, Continental Flag, Gadsden Flag,
Grand Union, Betsy Ross, Bennington, Star Spangled Banner and Old Glory. Nylon construction.
Price: $30.00
NAVAL JACK FLAG
Flown in Confederate naval vessels. Flag was devoted for the St. Andrews Cross. Nylon construction.
Price:
3 feet by 5 feet - $15.00
12 inches by 18 inches (set of 2) - $5.00
12 inches by 18 inches (single flag) - $3.00
THIRD CONFEDERATE FLAG
 Due to the fact that the 2nd
National’s pure white field could be mistaken for a flag of surrender, on March 4, 1865 this last flag of the Confederacy was adopted.
This design added a red bar to the end of the ”Stainless” flag. This flag flew for thirty-six days in 1865 until the South surrendered
on April 9th. Nylon construction.
Price:
3 feet by 5 feet - $15.00
12 inches by 18 inches (set of 2) - $5.00
12 inches by 18 inches (single flag) - $3.00
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GADSDEN
FLAG
Gadsden, Christopher
(1724-1805), American patriot,
was born in Charleston, South
Carolina, in 1724. His father,
Thomas Gadsden, was for a time
the king's collector for the
port of Charleston. Christopher
went to school near Bristol,
in England, returned to America
in 1741, was afterwards employed
in a counting house in Philidelphia,
and became a merchant and planter
at Charleston. In 1759 he was
captain of an artillery company
in an expedition against the
Cherokees. He was a member of
the South Carolina legislature
almost continuously from 1760
to 1780, and represented his
province in the Stamp Act Congress
of 1765 and in the Continental
Congress in 1774-1776. In February
1776 he was placed in command
of all the military forces of
South Carolina, and in October
of the same year was commissioned
a brigadier-general and was
taken into the Continental service:
but on account of a dispute
arising out of a conflict between
state and Federal authority
resigned his command in 1777.
He was lieutenant-governor of
his state in 1780, when Charleston
was surrendered to the British.
For about three months following
this event he was held prisoner
on parole within the limits
of Charleston; then, because
of his influence in deterring
others from exchanging their
paroles for the privelges of
British subjects, he was seized,
taken to St. Augustine, Florida,
and there, because he would
not give another parole to those
who had violated the former
agreement affecting him, he
was confined for forty-two weeks
in a dungeon. In 1782 Gadsden
was again elected governor,
but declined to serve on the
ground that he was too old and
infirm; in 1788 he was a member
of the convention which ratified
for South Carolina the Federal
constitution; and in 1790 he
was a member of the convention
which framed the new state constitution.
He died in Charleston on the
28th of August 1805. From the
time that Governor Thomas Boone,
in 1762, pronounced his election
to the legislature improper,
and dissolved the House of consequence,
Gadsden was hostile to the British
administration. He was an ardent
leader of the opposition to
the Stamp Act, advocating even
then a seperation of the colonies
from the mother country; and
in the Continental Congress
of 1774 he discussed the situation
on the basis of inalienable
rights and liberties, and urged
an immediate attack on General
Thomas Gage, that he might be
defeated receiving reinforcements.
Price: $15.00
Only 3 x 5 available
Taylor
family residence displays the
historic flags of our great
nation. One Nation under God.
The mission of the CHCO is to
preserve, restore and erect
monuments, promote true U.S.
history and the sovereignty
of the United States of America.
U. S. histoic flags can be purchased
from the CHCO. Books and flag
web page.
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