Designating Flag, Headquarters, 1st Veteran Army Corps
notes: label: Description
content: Wool bunting swallowtail flag. Blue field with a white heptagon applique in the center of the flag. The sides of the heptagon are concave. Painted in the center of the white applique is a US shield (with red and white stripes below; blue with white stars on top) surrounded by a laurel leaf in green paint. Radiating from the laurel leaf are seven painted black spears that extend to the seven angles of the heptagon. Reinforcement squares at both hoist corners. White cotton hoist with a metal grommet at either end. The inscription on the hoist reads "1ST VETERAN HEADQUARTERS." Machine-stitched seams.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Flags
label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Civil War
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Civil War
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content: Military
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content: Designating Flags
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content: Flags
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.25308
label: catalog number
content: 25308
label: accession number
content: 64127
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flag, designating
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (heading material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (applique details material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 83 in x 42 1/2 in; 210.82 cm x 107.95 cm