In May of 1861,
Jacksonville secessionist planned to raised a their own secession flag. During the night the group stretched a rope across the street and suspended a flag from it bearing a
pine tree on its field. In the morning the towns folk who found it quickly took it down. A month later upon hearing the news of the start of the war citizens across the town started flying flags. A lady named Dr. Zany Ganung was walking back into town after a work trip, when she spotted a secessionist flag flying from the flag pole in front of J. T. Glenn’s store. The flag bore a Palmetto with a rattlesnake. She soon grabbed an ax and hacked down the flagpole. Then she took the flag back to her house and put it in her stove, setting the whole thing on fire. She was later celebrated for her actions. In August of 1861, a name Welch raised a Confederate flag on North Fork in
Yamhill county. Him and his secessionist neighbors protected the flag from threats by Unionist. In 1862, the secessionist of
Smithfield started arming themselves planning on doing their part for the Southern Confederacy. In the summer they acquired a small cannon. While other members got together to fly the
Stars and Bars, they first started by finding a tree long enough to act as the pole. When one was suitable they stripped it of its branches and removed its bark. The pole was raised it font of general store with the women of the town coming together to sew the huge Confederate flag. The flag was soon raised and quickly became noticed, unionist in
Eugene were demanding the sheriff take it down. The sheriff knowing that the residence were armed was not interested risking his life, so he declined. Weeks later one of the towns people was in Eugene trying to buy supplies when he was arrested a taken to the local jail. A mob of unionist tried Lynch him, but he fought them with a
penknife and held them off for the sheriff and his posse to regain control. In August a detachment of federal troops rode from Fort Vancouver too Smithfield to find a deserter. They located him at a farm and took him in, they also captured the town's rebel flag. ==Oregon regiments in the Civil War==