National Colors of the 16th Independent Battery, O.V.V.L.A.   Save
Ohio Battle Flag Audiovisual Collection
Description: This silk flag served as the national colors of the 16th Independent Battery of the Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery. The flag was manufactured in the United States between 1861 and 1865. The flag has eighteen gold-painted stars still intact on a blue canton. Due to deterioration some stars have been lost and only portions of eleven of the flag's thirteen red and white stripes remain intact. Ohio battle flags were on display at the Ohio Statehouse until the 1960s, when the state formed a committee to oversee the efforts to restore the fragile flags. Some of the battle flags were on display on the Plaza Level of the Ohio Historical Society from 1970 until 1989. For conservation reasons, the flags have been in storage since 1989. In the 1960s, the collection was photographed and commercial artist Robert Needham painted illustrations of many Civil War flags. Photographs of the flags and the paintings are now part of the society's archival collections View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01832
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Ohio Battle Flag Audiovisual Collection