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Ohio Battle Flag Audiovisual Collection
Description: This silk flag served as the national colors of the 14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The flag was manufactured in New York, New York, between 1863 and 1865. There are 35 gold-painted stars arranged in a grid pattern on a blue canton. The flag has thirteen alternating red and white stripes and portions of gold fringe remaining on its top and bottom sides. Gold-painted text on the flag's middle red stripe reads: "14th OHIO INFANTRY." Black-painted text in the flag's other stripes reads: "Wild Cat. / Mill Springs. /Corinth. / Perryville. / Rolling Fork. / Tullahoma. / Chickamauga. Missionary Ridge. / Resaca. Kennesaw [...] / Atlanta. Jonesboro. / Savannah. Ra[...]." Some of the text is no longer legible or intact due to deterioration. 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: AL01882
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Ohio