Object Details
- Description
- Confederate Artillery Flag captured near Nashville, Tennessee in 1864. The cotton flag has a blue field with 13 stars arranged in the form of an "X" to the left of three solid bars, alternating red and white. The flag bears an ink inscription: "Battery flag. Rebel. Captured by Andrew J. Sloan, Private, Co. H. 12th Iowa Infantry at the Battle of Brentwood Hills, near Nashville, December 16th, 1864". This object is part of the General Edward D. Townsend Collection of relics of the War of 1812, Mexican War, and Civil War. Townsend was the principal executive officer of the War Department during the American Civil War.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- associated date
- 1861 - 1862
- ca 1861 - 1865
- 1864 - 12 - 16
- ID Number
- AF.18967 [dup1]
- catalog number
- 18967
- accession number
- 62555
- Object Name
- Flag
- Other Terms
- Flag; Military; CSA, Army; Guidon
- Physical Description
- cotton (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13 1/2 in x 20 in; 34.29 cm x 50.8 cm
- Associated Place
- United States: Tennessee, Nashville-Davidson
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
- Military
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Army
- Civil War
- Confederacy
- Record ID
- nmah_439657
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ae-163c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
