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 ...

OTSEGO, Mich. — A Civil-war-era American flag made a rare appearance at the Otsego Area Historical Society and Museum Saturday. Dating back to 1863, this renditionof the American flag was the ...

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.

The state plans to restore 214 battle flags from the Civil War, World War II and the Spanish American War. The flags are stored at the Iowa Battle Flag Preservation Laboratory in the State ...

and now called the American Civil War Museum, contains the biggest collection of Confederate battle flags, about 500. The Charleston Light Dragoons banner that turned up in Michigan won’t be one ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) - A Milwaukee veterans park was adorned Friday with the last of more than 27,000 American ... Civil War onward. Volunteers finished planting the last of the 27,316 American flags ...

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 ...