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GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS FLAG FACTS

General John Stark with a small band of men led the Battle of Bennington on August 16, 1777 against General John Bergoyne leader of the Briish Forces in Canada.  The heavy fighting lasted two hours and the Americans were victorious with the British leaving behind much of their equipment.

The Bennington Museum in Vermont has preserved a faded blue silk canton with thirteen five-pointed stars.  This and some loose green fragments are all that remain of the flag that Stark claimed to have carried in that battle. 

The flag became known on the occasion of the Centennial celebration of the Battle of Bennington.  Fove pf Germera; Stark's granddaughters were present.  One of the granddaughters had nursed the General through his last illness and became aware that the General has saved the flag for his descendents.  The girls cut patches of the field of green as keepsakes.  One of the granddaughters carried her piece of the flag at the dedication of the Bennington battlefield.  She gave the remnant including the canton which she had inherited to John Spargo, a flag historian.  Sometime later Spargo gave the fragment to the Bennington Museum.

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