The reversed positioning of the American flag on spacecraft ... of placing the flag in reverse on the right sleeve of military uniforms dates back to the Civil War. Soldiers carried the flag ...

This section displays objects that were used as flags during the Civil War. National Museum of American History Old Glory flag National Museum of American History United States National 34-Star Flag ...

Civil War enthusiasts have a new attraction ... of this home for the collection of the 403 Spanish-American and Civil War regimental flags. The open house continues through 4:30 p.m. Wednesday ...

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 ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, and is now on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American ... House to be the Civil War’s de facto conclusion.

On a Civil War battlefield ... owns nearly 950 battle flags going from the Mexican-American war to today. Over half of the flags, including most of the pre-World War II flags, are curated and ...

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 ...

an effort to conserve 240 battle flags carried by Michigan soldiers in the Civil War, the Spanish American War and World War I. A debt of gratitude is owed to those who carried the flags ...