It includes 374 Union flags from the Civil War, 22 from the Spanish-American Ward and several pre-Civil War state militia company flags from the 1820s and 1830s. “They were the lifeblood of the ...

To Jim Hawk the unveiling of the flag was an emotional occasion. The departmental commander for the Iowa Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War was involved in beginning a restoration project of ...

On a Civil War battlefield, the sight of a blue Union battle flag with an eagle seal flying in the wind meant you were surrounded by 1,000 of your closest friends. And in the midst of a battle ...

CHARLESTON - Illinois has one of the largest Civil War flag collections ... he said. Flags were typically administered by the quartermaster of the Union Army. Sometimes, women's groups would ...

which also sold the sword of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman last May, to list the flag for bidding. The auction house, one of the nation’s leading purveyors of early American ...