The rare Eutaw flag from Revolutionary War on display at the Charleston Museum

How does a cut-out piece of domestic fabric become a revered symbol of freedom and democracy? It gets flown in battle. The ...
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KS civil war-era flags in desperate need of restoration

TOPEKA (KSNT) – The Kansas Museum of History (KMoH) houses over 40 Civil War battle flags in desperate need of costly restoration. Boone Dodson is a curator at the KMoH who has been helping create the ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Infantry flag returns home for Civil War anniversary

When Union troops during the Civil War advanced into Little Rock to take command of the state capital Sept. 10, 1863, Confederate evacuation moved so swiftly that Southern soldiers didn’t have time to ...
The Boston Globe

150 years later, ‘Return of the Flags’ reenacted on Beacon Hill

A brace of fifes chirped "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" as dozens of men wearing the pinwheel forage cap of the Union Army and bearing infantry flags marched to the drum cadence into the State ...
WRBL

9/11 memorial flag on display at National Infantry Museum

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) – As the National Infantry Museum gears up for their 9/11 commemoration events, they have a handmade flag on display to honor the victims of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade ...
UPI

Service members place flags at at Arlington National Cemetery

May 27 (UPI) --U.S. military service members placed flags at gravestones Thursday in Arlington National Ceremony in honor of Memorial Day. Members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as the "Old ...
The Topeka Capital-Journal

Battle flags help tell Kansas' involvement in Civil War

Hanging on a wall at the Kansas Museum of History is a flag that was carried by the 2nd Kansas Volunteer Cavalry into battles in Arkansas, Missouri and Indian Territory during the Civil War. Painted ...
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Minnesota won a Confederate battle flag from Virginia during the Civil War. Here's why it won't give it back.

There might not be a lot of mystery surrounding how the Civil War turned out when it ended in April 1865. In the simplest of oversimplified nutshells: The Union defeated the Confederacy. The nation ...