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

Flags signaled other units in battle ... of war. Designating flags were used to organize army units, whereas other flags directly represented the two warring factions. This section displays objects ...

The flag is the only known privately-owned Confederate battle flag captured during Pickett’s Charge from Pickett’s Division ...

During the Civil War, no flag became a more popular symbol of Union loyalty than the worn and ... one of them would later die of his wounds at the Battle of Perryville. One can only imagine ...

Civil War volunteers from Manitowoc County carried the flag with them until they returned. James Anderson and other survivors kept it in their possession until 1925. At that time, the flag was ...

"Incidents of the war ... African American Union soldiers who were never identified 2 out of 3 — Number of Civil War deaths that occurred from disease rather than battle 68,162 — Number ...