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!
West Point Flag Museum Houses Historic Colors
A tour of the United States Military Academy museum at West Point highlights flags from the Revolution to the Spanish American and Mexican wars. Among Civil War banners are Ellsworth’s Zouaves and a Shiloh flag saved by a Missouri color guard. Also featured are British, Hessian, and Mexican flags linked to Washington era and Yorktown, plus a Philippines handkerchief flag used by troops in the Philippine expedition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Continental Congress
Philadelphia
United States
Arch Street
Elizabeth Griscom Ross
Betsy Ross
Fort McHenry
Maryland
Francis Scott Key
National Mauseum
Washington
Key
Old City Cemetery
Nashville
United States Military Academy
West Point
George Washington
Yorktown
Lord Cornwallis
George Washington Parke Custis
Martha Washington
Custis
War Department
Floyd
Trenton
Ansbach-Bayreuth
Cornwallis
Seventh
Royal Fusiliers
Fort Chambly
Anthony” Wayne
Stony Point
New York
Butler
Rangers
Susquehanna
Wyoming
Fort George
Upper Canada
St. George’s Cross
Sir John Johnson
Willett
Fort Stanwix
Scott and
Taylor
Ille Grande
Pickett
Gettysburg
Legion
Sheridan
Cavalry
First Division
Cavalry Corps
Army of the Potomac
Fifth Cavalry
First
New York Zouaves
Ephriam Elmer Ellsworth
Marshall House
Alexandria
Ellsworth
United States Missouri Volunteer Infantry
Shiloh
Beem
Church
Military Academy
Crafts J. Wright
Glendale
Ohio
Missouri
Wright
Philippines