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Date: 5/20/2011

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Photo by Missouri History Museu,Mercantile Library and Washington University

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Anna Clapp, president of the Ladies' Union Aid Society in St. Louis, which raised money and collected bandages and other assistance for Union soldiers during the Civil War. Clapp and her husband, Alfred, a merchant, moved here from New York state in the 1850s. Many of her fellow Aid Society leaders were transplants from the Northeast and her fully committed to the Union cause. When Southern-sympathizing neighbors threatened to remove the American flag flying from the Clapp home, she said, "You can only reach the flag over my dead body." It stayed. (Missouri History Museum)

Caption: Anna Clapp, president of the Ladies' Union Aid Society in St. Louis, which raised money and collected bandages and other assistance for Union soldiers during the Civil War. Clapp and her husband, Alfred, a merchant, moved here from New York state in the 1850s. Many of her fellow Aid Society leaders were transplants from the Northeast and her fully committed to the Union cause. When Southern-sympathizing neighbors threatened to remove the American flag flying from the Clapp home, she said, "You can only reach the flag over my dead body." It stayed. (Missouri History Museum) Album ID: 1250311 Photo ID: 35806035

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