Brent & Angel Sible

Save the Flags was honored to host Brent and Angel Sible for a visit to the flag storage unit at the state museum on Friday, February 14th. Angel is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Brent serves as the Sons of Union Veterans Post Commander of the Alexander French 28 Post in Big Rapids, Michigan. The flag they are standing behind was carried by the 25th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

The regiment’s flags were “first unfurled to the breeze” at Tebb’s Bend on the Green River in Kentucky on the morning of July 4, 1863. Under the command of Colonel Orlando Moore, they successfully repulsed assault after assault by rebel General John Morgan, even though vastly outnumbered at least ten to one.  Invited by Morgan to surrender in the face of his superior force, Moore coolly replied that “the Fourth of July is no day to entertain such a proposition.”