Should Minnesota return Virginia's Confederate battle flag?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

No: there is a long-standing tradition whereby winners get to keep captured banners.

A number of captured Civil War Flags have been returned south over the years.  Sometimes as part of an exchange of artifacts between museums, sometimes as pure gifts.  However, I doubt that this flag was that of Virginia battalion.  Why?  Because during the Civil War, a battalion was an ad hoc subunit of a regiment given command of some of the companies thereof.  Therefore it was likely a company or regimental flag, not a battalion flag.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

This battle flag is directly cited in the Medal of Honor citation of Private Marshall Sherman of the 1st Minnesota, and it was displayed at his 1896 funeral, which is probably how it ended up at the Minnesota Historical Society rather than being in the possession of the War Department when the 1905 order to return such banners to the rebel States was issued.

Given its history, the most appropriate place for this flag is as part of a museum exhibit honoring Marshall Sherman, and that certainly won't happen if it's returned to Virginia. So no, this flag should definitely remain in the care of Minnesota.