Designating Flag, 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps
date: label: date made
content: 1865
label: contract date
content: 1865-03-23
name: label: maker
content: William F. Scheible
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description:
label: Description
content: Wool bunting pennant flag. White field. In the center of the flag is a blue Maltese cross inside a circular blue border. White cotton machine-stitched heading with a brass grommet at either end. Hand-stitched seams.
label: Description
content: General Description:
label: Description
content: Fifth Army Corps (18 May 1862 - 28 June 1865)
label: Description
content: The ensign representing the Fifth Corps, a Maltese Cross, was prescribed by General Joseph Hooker on march 21, 1863. The appearance of the cross on Fifth Corps flags varied.
label: Description
content: The "Gallant Fifth" was created in march of 1862 as an element of the Army of the Potomac under General George B. McClellan. Soon afterwards the Department of the Shenandoah was create and the Fifth Corps transferred to it. My May 1862, the Fifth Corps of the Potomac was recreated; it remained in existence until June 1865.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Civil War
label: Subject
content: Flags
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: Flags
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content: Designating Flags
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.25236B
label: catalog number
content: 25236B
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 (part: heading material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 75 in x 58 in; 190.5 cm x 147.32 cm