Designating Flag, Chief Quartermaster, 5th Army Corps
date: label: date made
content: ca 1865
name: label: maker
content: William H. Horstmann & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description:
label: Description
content: Wool bunting tapered swallowtail flag. Blue field with two diagonal white stripes, or bends, that extend from either end of the hoist to the end of each tail. The stripes cross at the fork of the swallowtail. Surmounting the stripes is a red number "5". White cotton canvas hoist. Machine stitching. The inscription on the hoist reads "5 ARMY CORPS Chf. Qtr. Mr. HORSTMANN./PHILADELPHIA."
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 created and the Fifth Corps transferred to it. By 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: classified
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.25266A
label: catalog number
content: 25266A
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: 64 1/2 in x 51 3/4 in; 163.83 cm x 131.445 cm