This section displays objects that were used as flags during the Civil War. National Museum of American History Old Glory flag National Museum of American History United States National 34-Star Flag ...

Historically, the backward flag can be traced back to the Civil War. During the war, troop had flag bearers who would carry ...

A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, will be a top ...

A tale of fidelity, family feud and argument over ownership is the subject of a new inquiry by the Smithsonian National Museum of American ... our souls.” During the Civil War, no flag became ...

The flag will be featured during Fleischer’s Auctions’ two-day ... it's the rarest historic artifact ever offered from the Civil War era. The Battle of Gettysburg looms large in American history, and ...

which also sold the sword of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman last May, to list the flag for bidding. The auction house, one of the nation’s leading purveyors of early American ...