Designating Flag, Chief Quartermaster, 9th Army Corps
date: label: date made
content: 1865
name: label: maker
content: William F. Scheible
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description:
label: Description
content: Wool bunting tapered swallowtail flag. Red field. There are two bicolor diagonal stripes that extend from one end of the hoist to the opposite swallowtail; these stripes cross at the fork in the swallowtail. The bicolor stripes are white on top and navy on bottom before the fork and navy on top and white on bottom on the swallowtails. A green cotton number "9" surmounts the stripes. White cotton hhoist with a metal grommet at each end. The hoist has an inscription that reads "9th ARMY Corps/Chief/Qr. Master From/Wm. F. Scheible/Philada Pa/Contract March 23, 1865." The flag is hand-stitched.
label: Description
content: General Description:
label: Description
content: Ninth Army Corps (22 July 1862 - 1 August 1865)
label: Description
content: The Ninth Army Corps used several different flags during its existence between 22 July 1862 and 1 August 1865. The corps badge, authorized on April 19, 1864, called for the design of a shield on which a fouled anchor lies beneath a cannon. the regulation flag bearing the badge design came into use in the late summer of 1864.
label: Description
content: The Corps was commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside from its beginning. It is speculated that the shield represents the seal of the state of Rhode Island, General Burnsides' birthplace, and the fouled anchor refers to the Corp's participation in the Peninsular campaign.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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.25270D
label: catalog number
content: 25270D
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: Physical Description
content: cotton (part: number "9" material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 59 1/4 in x 76 in; 150.495 cm x 193.04 cm