The regimental flag of the First Louisiana Heavy Artillery. The restored flag hangs in the Hall of Flags at the Confederate Memorial Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was donated to the museum by the Jack Crane family and funds to have it restored were donated by the living descendants of First Lieutenant George Price Crane, CSA.
Crane's battery was among the garrison surrendered to Gen. Grant at Vicksburg on July 4, 1863. Rather than have his regimental colors fall into enemy hands, he tied the flag around his waist and put his tunic over it. He was then able to smuggle the flag past his captors. After the war, the flag was passed down the descendants until it came to hang in the home of Jack Crane, my father. My brothers, Michael, Patrick and I donated it to the Confederate Museum in 1986. It now belongs to all the people of the South.