Designating Flag, 2nd Division, 17th Army Corps
date: label: date made
content: ca 1865
name: label: maker
content: Horstmann Brothers & Company
label: maker
content: William H. Horstmann & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description:
label: Description
content: Rectangular wool bunting flag. Blue field with faded yellow fringe on all edges except for the hoist. In the center of the flag is a white cotton arrow applique; the arrow is horizontal and points toward the fly. White cotton canvas heading with a metal grommet at each end. Heading, flag panels, and flag edges are machine-stitched. Applique and fringe are hand-stitched.
label: Description
content: General Description:
label: Description
content: Seventeenth Army Corps (18 December 1862 - 1 August 1865)
label: Description
content: The Seventeenth Army Corps flags, authorized in late April, 1865; bears the arrow badge emblem adopted by the corps the previous month. The arrow was chosen because it denotes, "its undeviating course in the march, the swiftness of its attack, it's surety of striking where wanted, and its destructive powers when propelled properly against the enemy." (Myhall, Fig BB)
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.25276C
label: catalog number
content: 25276C
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 (applique material)
label: Physical Description
content: canvas (heading material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 48 3/4 in x 41 1/8 in; 123.825 cm x 104.4575 cm