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The flag of the Prince William Cavalry, a Confederate military unit during the Civil War, was displayed at the Manassas Museum for more than three decades.
A view of flag of the 119th New York Volunteers at a new exhibit of Civil War battle flags, entitled 1863: Loyal Till Death, on display on the first floor at the State Capitol, seen here on Monday ...
Now is your chance to see rare Civil War flags unveiled at the Michigan Historical Museum in Lansing. ... The flag of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry Regiment bears 40 battle honors; ...
The flag, Loucraft found in her research, appears to have been donated to Lowell Memorial Auditorium in 1929 by Mary Sawyer Knapp, a woman known to have a large collection of war relics.
Over a century later, the flag, deemed one of the rarest relics from the Civil War, sold for $82,000 at auction. For years, the Confederate flag has served as a powerful symbol, one that's meant ...
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — Union troops were deep in enemy territory, outnumbered badly by Confederate forces on a battlefield in Clinton, La., near the Mississippi border. Among the Union troops in ...
The 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry was formed in Milwaukee in March 1862. One of its commanders was Col. Cadwallader Washburn, who served as Wisconsin governor and in Congress after the Civil War; he's ...
The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in 1949, under World War I combat veteran Harry Truman. He declared in a ...
Holvar Anderson, only recently turned 21, had just purchased an 80-acre farm in Fruitland Township when he enlisted in the Union Army and marched off to fight in the Civil War. Anderson, born on ...
URBANA — A flag believed to have been carried through much of the Civil War by a regiment made up of men from Illinois is on ... The flag was carried by 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment from 1861 ...
An extremely rare 25 foot square Parliamentarian battle flag from the English Civil War will go on display for the ... are the cavalry armour and the military coat of one of Sir John Gell’s ...