“M” is for Moultrie flag

“M” is for Moultrie flag. In January 1776, the South Carolina Council of Safety sent Colonel William Moultrie, commander of the Second South Carolina Regiment at Fort Sullivan, twenty-three yards of blue cloth. In the colonel's memoirs he wrote: “it was thought necessary to have a flag for the purpose of signals: (there was no national or state flag at the time) I was desired by the council of safety to have one made, upon which as the state troops were clothed in blue and the fort was garrisoned by the first the second regiments, who wore a silver crescent on the front of their caps; I had a large blue flag made with a crescent in the dexter corner, to be uniform with the troops: This was the first American flag which was displayed in South Carolina.”