Yale students leaving Sunday morning prayers looked up to see a large "Palmetto Flag" waving from the tower of Alumni Hall, placed there by Southern students. Many called it a worthy riposte to a group of Northern students paying African-American janitors to wear the "secession cockade" the previous week but the more radical Republican students considered it an unbearable insult. A group of around twenty smashed a door to the tower, climbed up, and removed the banner, cutting it into twenty pieces for souvenirs. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
"Secession of Yale College," Frank Leslie's Illustrated Magazine, February 2, 1861, p. 173.
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