Description: This United States flag, 1861-1863, belonged to General Fearing. The red, white and blue flag had 34 stars with a stars and stripes pattern. The dimensions are 135 by 252 cm. It was flown at half mast for General Grant and General Sherman. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H18379_001
Subjects: Textile--cotton; textile--cotton ---wool; Civil War 1861-1865; Flags--Ohio, Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: This wool U.S. flag has white fringe and cotton stars that have been hand-sewn. It features 13 red and white stripes and a blue canton with 44 5-pointed stars situated in staggered rows of 8-7-7-7-7-8 Known as the Peace Flag of 1891, it represents the pre-World War I peace movements in America. The dimensions are 134 by 210 cm. On June 14, 2000 (Baltimore, MD) The U.S. Postal Service released a set of 20 historic flags entitled "Stars and Stripes" which included the peace flag of 1891. Wyoming was admitted as the 44th state on July 10, 1890. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H18370_001
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; Textile--cotton; Textile--wool; Stars and Stripes; United States Postal Service;
 

Description: The now tattered Stars and Stripes has 13 stars organized in rows of 5-3-5. Thirteen star flags were carried by soldiers in both the Mexican War (1846-48) and the Civil War (1861-65) in remembrance of America's past colonial struggle for freedom. This wool battle flag was captured at Chancellorsville (May 1863) by the 4th Virginia Cavalry, also known as the Black Horse Cavalry. Though it originated as a militia in 1859, the Black Horse Cavalry mustered in Fauquier County, Virginia, and reportedly were escorts to General Stonewall Jackson. One of the officers of the 4th Virginia Cavalry gave the flag to a friend. Years later this lady friend married a Southern gentleman named Isaac Solomon. Years after the wedding, Solomon sold his plantation to Mr. Nelson Guenther. When they came across this flag in the household inventory Mr. Solomon said, "Guenther, you are a good Yankee, and I am going to give you this flag, with Mrs. Solomon's consent." [above narrated by Solomon] As part of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, the Confederate Calvary was commanded by Major General J.E.B. Stuart. (Stuart's corps had only two brigades at Chancellorsville, those of Brigadier Generals Wade Hampton and William E. "Grumble" Jones were detached.) View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H18378_001
Subjects: Textile--cotton; Communication artifact; textile--cotton ---wool; Civil War, 1861-1865; Chancellorsville, Battle of; 4th Virginia Cavalry; Black Horse Cavalry
Places: Chancellorsville (Virginia)
 

Description: Made of the textile (cotton), the Argentine flag has a golden sun on a white field with two blue stripes. It represents the Argentine Republic and dates from 1900-1920. "United Provinces of the Río de la Plata", "Argentina" and "Argentine Confederation" are also proper names for this South American country. It is bordered by the Andes Mountains in the East and the Atlantic Ocean on the West, Argentina is the second largest Latin American country behind Chile. Professor Charles S. Plumb of the Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) donated this flag in 1923 to the Ohio Historical Society, now known as the Ohio History Connection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65519_001
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; colonization--Spain; Ohio State University; Argentina; Textile--cotton;
Places: Argentina; South America
 

Description: The flag is of textile (cotton) with two red stripes, three red stars. It is stained the rectangular dimensions are 95 by 155 cm. In 1938 graphic designer Charles A.R. Dunn submitted this design based on the coat of arms of George Washington. Up until then the seal of the National Guard was generally used to represent Washington, D.C. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65484_001
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; District of Columbia; Textile--cotton;
Places: Washington (District of Columbia); District of Columbia
 

Description: This cotton flag features a white minuteman surrounded by a circle of thirteen stars against a rectangular blue field. A white letter "T" is sewn on to the bottom right corner. There are silver-colored metal grommets reinforce holes along one side of the flag. The minuteman flags were awarded during World War II to factories in which 90% of the employees committed at least 10% of their wages to the purchase of war bonds. This flag flew across the Ohio River from Marietta, Ohio, at the Blaw-Knox Company in New Martinsville, West Virginia. This flag dates from 1943. The dimensions of this flag are 220 cm by 128 cm. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H51984_001
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; War bonds; Textile--cotton
 

Description: This navy blue flag with the gold lettering is the flag of the state of Oregon. It has State of Oregon written above the escutchen which is a part of the state seal. One the tip of the escutchen is an eagle with 33 stars surrounding it, representing that Oregon was the 33rd state to join the union. In the seal are pictures of ships, a wagon, a plow, a sheaf of grain and a pick ax. There is also a banner with the words "The Union". Below the escutchen is the number 1859 representing the year that Oregon entered the Union. The flag is made of cotton and measures 90 by 155 cm. Materials :Cotton Color :Blue, Gold Marks :Maker's Stamp Decoration :State Seal, "1859", Ships, Wagon, Plow, Motto "The Union" Shape :Rectangle Dimensions :90 x 155 cm View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65290_001
Subjects: State Flags; Textile--cotton
Places: Oregon
 

Description: The flag has a red background with a diamond in the center. There are 25 white stars within the diamond's blue border and 4 blue stars inside the diamond accompanying the word ARKANSAS. The state's flag has retained this design since 1924. The flag is rectangular, 95 cm by 155 cm. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65492_001
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; Stars & Stripes; Textile--cotton;
Places: Arkansas
 

Description: The cotton and metal flag was made by Form King dates from 1960-1975. The flag shows the seal of Columbus along with the Ohio Statehouse, an eagle, the Santa Maria, the United States shield, and buckeye leaves with sixteen stars. The flag has three stripes in red, white, and blue, and is decorated with gold tassels and rope. The flag also has a metal ring and a snap hook. The dimensions of the rectangular flag are 163 by 245 cm. The flag was donated to the Ohio Historical Society, not the Ohio History Connection, in 1984 by Columbus Mayor Thomas Moody. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H36363_001
Subjects: Textile--cotton;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This Mississippi flag in red, white and blue and is made of cotton. It is decorated with the Confederate Battle Flag canton in one corner, a long red band and shorter blue and white bands. It's rectangular shape is 90 by 155 cm. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65289_001
Subjects: State Flags; Ceremonial artifact; Textile--cotton
 

Description: This is a fragment of a battle flag is red and white, which has darkened over the years. In the top white stripe is hand written 125th O.V.I. The red strip in the middle had the date 1862-1865. The lower white stripe has the names of Civil War battles inscribed in pen on the flag. They are: "Chickamauga - Missionary Ridge - Dandridge - Rock Fase Ridge - Resackey - Mudy Crick - New Hope - Kenasaw Mountain - Peach Tree Crick - Front of Alanta - Jonesborow - Pine Nob - Franklin - Nashville". The cotton fragment is framed and dates from 1862-1865. The dimensions of the flag are 20.2 by 27.9 cm. The Ohio Historical Society purchased this fragment from Charles Apfelbaum of Valley Stream, New York, in 1990. It belonged to Edwin C. Woodworth. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H59626_001
Subjects: Civil War 1861-1865; Textile--cotton; Military flags; Flags--Ohio, Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This (slightly stained) cotton square flag has a white field with a red square charge. It measures 120 by 120 cm. Army surgeon Albert J. Myer standardized signal communication with his early 1860s publication "A Manual of Signals For The Use of Signal Officers In The Field". The Myer Wig-wag system and associated codes were used by both Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. Soldiers received signal kits containing three flags of this design in differing sizes: 2x2, 4x4, 6x6 ft. Among other tools in these kits, there also were two other signal flags; a 4x4 black field with a white square, and a 4x4 red field with a white square. Sequences of three basic movements (right motion, left motion, and front) comprised Myer's communication system. Wig-wag became the first Union Navy Joint Signal Code (between the Union Army and Navy) until the turn of the century. This artifact acquired by the Ohio History Connection between 1900 and 1950. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65424_001
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Textile--cotton; Civil War, 1861-1865;
Places: United States; Confederate States of America