The Flag Maker of Market Street by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder took place today. The story follows Mr. George Cowles, a Montgomery store owner that supplies the Confederacy. In the silence of the night, however, he holds secret Unionist meetings is the back room of the store.

Mr. Cowles is tasked with creating the first Confederate flag which he assigns to his slave, while also risking to expose his double life as a Unionist.

Dennis McLernon and Libya Pugh in "The Flag Maker of Market Street"

The risk of exposing his double life only increases with the well-to-do southern women and their pride in the confederacy. Another hit by the award-winning author of Gee’s Bend and The Furniture of Home