This battle flag of the 31st Alabama Volunteer
Infantry was styled after the First National Flag of the Confederate States
of America.
The canton contains 13 stars, a cross, and the
inscription "GOD AND OUR NATIVE LAND" in letters 2.375"
high. On the center stripe appears the inscription "THIRTY FIRST
ALABAMA" in letters 4.5" high.
The flag was captured by Private Albert G. Trussel
of Company G, 17th Iowa Volunteer Infantry at Champion Hills, Mississippi
on May 24, 1862.