This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Private Flags Tell Vast War Stories Across America
A survey of rare Civil War and later battle banners shows private owners preserving iconic U S flags linked to Sullivan’s campaigns in Mexico and the Tomb of Montezuma, the Battle of Santiago, and the Civil War. Notable pieces include the 1813 Boxer victory flag loaned by a Portland collector, Maj Gen Barnett’s marine corps banner, and banners once tied to Generals Grant, Sheridan, and Logan now housed in private or public collections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Iris Enterprise
Portland
Marine Corps
Mexico
Marine Barracks
Washington
Barnett
George Barnett
Tripoli
Txax
General Grant
District of Columbia
Rant
Amos Webster
Sheridan
Five Forks
United States Army
John A. Logan
Army of the Tennessee
Logan
Fifteenth
Seventeenth
Army Corps
Army of the ‘Ten
Kansas
State House
Springfield
Rosa Wright Smith
Horatio G. Wright
Eral
Sixth Army Corps
General Wright
John G. Sedgwick
Sixth Corps
Spotsylvania
Smith
Sixth Ary Corps
Army of the Potomac
Willard
Shington
Maers
Hwe
Isabel’ Worrell Ball
Elizabeth City
Roan Island
Roanoke Island
Whitehead
Papi
Vunain
Rover
Gragg
Annapolis
Hall
William
Philadelphia
Antietam
Rome Guards
Ind
M. B
Oliver P. Morton
Indiana
Morton
Taylor
William Taylor
Ball
Cynthia Dunn
Hiount County
Tenn
Denver
Ma Fe
Dunn
Third Tennesse
Burnside
Knoxville
John T.gunn
Department ‘of the Kentucky
Grand Army of the Republic
Mary Vile
Sherman
Longstreet
Home Guards
Blount County
John T. Henry
Oldier
Tennessee Cavairy
Robley D. Evans
Santiago
Bob
Henry W. Lawton
Eighth Army
United States National Museum