A (Fictional) Rattlesnake Flag of the Northern States

In Laura Brodie’s excellent Raven 32 article “Rattlesnakes and Rebels: The Confederate History of the ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ Flag”, we learned how the rattlesnake flag of Revolutionary War fame was adopted by the Southern Confederacy at the outbreak of the Civil War. However, in 1861, at least one Union newspaper fired back at the rebels with its own version of a Northern rattlesnake flag.

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