National Colors of the 32nd O.V.I.   Save
Ohio Battle Flag Audiovisual Collection
Description: National colors of the 32nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The rectangular flag measures 175 cm high by 186 cm wide. The silk flag served as the national colors of the 32nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The flag was manufactured in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between 1863 and 1865. There are 35 gold-painted stars on a blue canton. The stars are arranged in two concentric ovals surrounding one middle star. There is also one star in each of the canton's four corners. The flag has thirteen alternating red and white stripes and gold fringe on its top, right and bottom sides. 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. The 32nd O.V.I. was organized in Mansfield, Ohio in July of 1861 and mustered out on July 18, 1965. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01933
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Ohio