The Union battle flag bears 35 stars and was the one most flown by Union forces during the Civil War, said Lee Humiston, director and curator of the museum. Examples are rare and this one has a ...

It's tough today, with radios and computers, to grasp the significance of the battle flags to soldiers during the Civil War, said Steve Martin, who traces his ancestors to some of the first people ...

A view of flag of the 119th New York Volunteers at a new exhibit of Civil War battle flags, entitled 1863: ... During the Chancellorsville Campaign, April 30–May 6, 1863, ...

On May 12, 1864 during the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse in Virginia, a Union soldier in hand-to-hand combat with a North Carolina standard-bearer tore the battle flag right off its staff. The ...

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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.

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 ...

As the fight for racial equality raged during the Civil Rights era, Southern states began to display the Confederate flag. Georgia put the Confederate symbol on its state flag in the late 1950s.

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine, a quirky and fascinating repository of battlefield medical artifacts including skull saws and rusty scalpels, is amputating the Confederate flag from its ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Long a symbol of pride to some and hatred to others, the Confederate battle flag is losing its place of official prominence 155 years after rebellious Southern states lost a ...

In July 2020, preservationists in Cleveland meticulously unrolled an American flag from its pole that was flown during the Civil War by the 35th Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry — also ...

Flags gone from Civil War museum's logo. January 7, 2020 at 2:54 a.m. by Michael S. Rosenwald The Washington Post ...