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Rule VII.

All orders for Crosses shall be filed in the Custodian's of-
fice three weeks before the day intended for bestowal.

Rule IX.
Any Chapter departing from these rules will not be en-

titled to Crosses for presentation.
Preceding the presentation of the Crosses, Rules V., VI.,

VII., VIII., and IX., shall be read, on every occasion of the

bestowal.

The President of each Chapter shall see that the Camps of
Confederate Veterans and Sons of Confederate Veterans in her
county shall receive a copy of these rules for continual refer-

ence.

HISTORY OF CONFEDERATE UNIFORM AND

FLAG.

Designs From Which They Were Adopted Were Made by Ni-

cola Marschall, a Prussian Artist, Who for More than

—Thirty Years Has lived in Louisville He Prepared the

Drawings at the Request of Mrs. Napoleon Lockett in Mar-

ion, Ala., Where He Resided Then.

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Located in Louisville, in a well-known business building, is
a time-stained yet time-honored room. Its walls are darkened
with the finger marks of the passing years, and the whole de-
meanor of the place is unobtrusive and unpretentious. Yet is
this place rich in its treasured traditions of the Old South or
the southland of ante-bellum days.

It is the art studio of Nicola Marschall, musician, portrait
painter and designer of both uniform and flag of the Confeder-

ate States of America. From his Prussian homeland, where
he was made skilfull musically and trained to the painter's art,
this man, then in his youth, came over land and sea to America

at one of the most rugged and picturesque periods of this coun-
try's history, the memorable gold-fever days of '49. It was in