Flags signaled other units in battle, but were also a tangible manifestation of the ... This section displays objects that were used as flags during the Civil War. National Museum of American History ...

The first battle flags moved into bronze and glass Gorham Manufacturing Co. display cases in 1903. Most of the flags flew in the Civil War, but there were also four flags from the Spanish-American ...

That flag was given by the women of the town to local soldiers marching off to fight in the Civil War 160 years ago. The men carried it through all their battles. When the survivors came home ...