English: At the time that the flag was said to be raised, this gentlemen met about sixty or seventy men mounted and armed to the teeth, creating some considerable dust, and bearing "a deep red flag with a black bear painted on it," and saw no other flag with them. There were no stripes or stars (just) covered with red, as Murray Morrison has stated.
-Daily Alta California, 22 June 1861
-Sacramento Daily Union, 24 June 1861
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Bear flag carried by armed secessionists in Los Angeles