Talk:Christopher Gadsden

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Full name?

Did he also go by Charles? I'm reading an article about a Charles Gadsden who designed the Gadsden flag, and I'm wondering if the author's sources are completely wrong or if the same person went by two names. Help? Aristophanes68 (talk) 06:24, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know who Charles is but the Gadsden flag was designed by Christopher Dadsden.

Prisoner of War

In the article under prisoner of war it states that he was released from what the British called Ft. St. Marks and sent on a merchant ship back up to the U.S. territory. This is not quite what happened. My great, great, great, great, great grandfather Don Francisco Xavier Sanchez rescued him and other patriots from the fort in St. Augustine and smuggled them back to South Carolina on his ship and yes he was a merchant and so it was a merchant ship. He did this at great risk as doing so could have gotten him hanged. He has just recently been recognized by the Daughters of the American revolution for doing this. Unfortunately I am only able to offer original research so I am not able to cite any books or internet sources that Wikipedia might consider appropriate. Anyone could verify this by looking up D.A.R. patriots from British East Florida. Among the rescued prisoners were three signers of the declaration of Independence.