whether it symbolized their particular corps or the larger intentions of war. Designating flags were used to organize army units, whereas other flags directly represented the two warring factions.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

MEADE, to attack the Army of the Potomac. For this purpose LEE massed his forces on the right of that army, now reduced by the Eleventh and Twelfth corps, recently sent to the West. Besides the ...