A second Bond County flag was made at Pocahontas and given to an organization that later became Company E of the 130th Illinois Infantry Volunteers. The flag was carried into battle and more than once pierced by a bullet during the siege of Vicksburg. This flag survived and was returned to Pocahontas after the war where, according to Charles Johnson, it assumed a place of honor.
Hundreds of flags like these were given to volunteer soldiers by patriotic women of their home towns in both the North and the South. Like the soldiers who carried them into battle, not all of them returned home.
