The Culpepper Flag Small 320×259 Medium 640×518 Large 1024×828 Download Tiff Original 2400×1941 | (3.7 MB) Description The Culpeper Minutemen chose the coiled snake ready to strike and the words from Gadsden's flag, but then raised another defiant fist at England by adding the words: "Liberty or Death." Keywords don't tread on me, liberty or death, rattlesnake flag, The Culpepper Minute Men Galleries US Flags, Black and White Outline Illustrations Source: Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 3) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)