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UNITED STATES ARMY
ARTILLERY: The artillery batteries usually carried a swallow tail stars and stripes flag with the battery designating letter in the canton. The national and regimental flags were infantry size and usually stayed with the regimental commander. Late in the war some artillery regiments were converted to infantry and they took the field with their national and yellow regimental flags.
Just designated which battery you want.
CAVALRY: The cavalry was authorized the blue regimental flag only (no stars and stripes) thru out the entire war. The Stars and Stripes was not authorized to be carried by cavalry regiments until 1871. In early 1863 the cavalry troop flags changed from red over white swallow tail to stars and stripes swallow tail and then changed back after the war. If you want swallow tail troop flag for your cavalry just designate which type and troop letter.
INFANTRY: Authorized a 6? x 6.5? national (stars and stripes) and the same size blue regimental (white in Massachusetts). In many cases it is difficult to match pairs of flags for a regiment because most regiments received more than one pair of flags during the war and in some cases received individual flags rather than a pair. Also, the historical research has not been done by some states to be able to match the flags. Some states preservation of their flags is just beginning and therefore getting information on those flags is difficult. Last, information for many of the flags simply did not survive the war. I will do my best give you matching pairs but in many cases it will be best guess. If you have more information than me please write and we will do what we can.
Caution when picking flags from the websites. West Virginia was admitted to the Union in mid 1863, causing another star to be added to the flags (35 total) that were ordered after Gettysburg. If you want flag for early war they need to be 34 stars.
HQ
These are the Generals personal flag.
General Averill
General Burnside
General Grant
General Hickman
General Keyes
General Kilpatrick
General Reynolds
General Sheridan
General Sherman #1
General Sherman #2
General Thomas
HQ Army of Cumberland
HQ Army of the Ohio
HQ Army of the Potomac
HQ Army of Tennessee
Corps
All Corps (except the cavalry and USCT) have a HQ flag, three or four Division flags per Corps, four Brigade flags per Division and the Corps Artillery Brigade flag.
1st thru 12th Corps
14th thru 20th Corps
22nd thru 25th Corps
U.S. Colour Troops Corps
Army of Mississippi Cavalry Corps
Army of the Potomac Cavalry Corps
U.S. Infantry
Raised: 1st ? 19th Infantry. 1st ? 6th Cavalry
Infantry
4th
13th
14th
Cavalry
US ColouredTroops
Raised: 1st ? 138th Infantry. 1st ? 6th Cavalry
Infantry
3rd USCT
5th USCT
27th USCT
28th USCT
84th USCT
102 USCT
12th Corps D?Afrique
1st KS Coloured
54th MA Coloured
26th NY Coloured
U.S. Cavalry
1st Regiment
2nd Regiment
4th Regiment
7th Regiment
CONNECTICUT
Raised: 1st ?3rd (3 months), 4th - 28th, 29th - 30th Coloured.
No website, only a pamphlet with some flag drawings published by the League of Women Voters and backed up by a visit to the state house.
Infantry
6th CT
7th CT
10th CT
12th CT
DELAWARE
Raised: 1st ? 9th Infantry. 1st Cavalry
No website but an enthusiast sent me 9 images.
Infantry
1st DE
5th DE
Cavalry
ILLINOIS
Raised: 7th thru 156th Infantry. 1st ? 17th Cavalry. The first 6 numbers were not used because those regiments served in the Mexican-American War.
Has a good website but shows the flags in their actual condition and does not pair them up or give much historical information.
Infantry
Go on the website and tell me which ones you want.
Cavalry
Go on the website and tell me which ones you want.
INDIANA
Raised: 6th ? 159th Infantry. 1st thru 13 Cavalry.
No website and the images are sold by the state. I have not found a good book as of yet.
Infantry
9th IN
19th IN (Iron Brigade)
73rd IN
Cavalry
MAINE
Raised: 1st ? 32nd Infantry. 1st and 2nd Cavalry.
They have a good website but not a lot of historical information.
Infantry
Go on the website and tell me which ones you want.
Cavalry
Go on the website and tell me which ones you want.
MARYLAND
Raised: 1st ? 13th Infantry. 1st ? 3rd Cavalry.
Infantry
1st MD
Cavalry
MASSACHUSETTS
Raised: 1st, 2nd ? 8th (9 month militia), 9th ? 62nd (54th and 55th are Coloured) Infantry. 1st ? 5th Cavalry (5th is coloured).
No website but they have done really good historical research on their flags along with great colour photographs.
Infantry
1st MA
2nd MA
7th MA
9th MA
11th MA
12th MA
13th MA
15th MA
16th MA
19th MA
20th MA
22nd MA
27th MA
28th MA (Irish Brigade)
54th MA (Coloured)
55th MA (Coloured)
Cavalry
MICHIGAN
Raised: 1st ? 30th Infantry, 1st Coloured Infantry. 1st ? 11th Cavalry
Has a website but it does not feature all of their flags no have much historical information.
Infantry
Go on the website and tell me which ones you want.
Cavalry
Go on the website and tell me which ones you want.
MINNESOTA
Raised: 1st ? 11th Infantry. 1st and 2nd Cavalry.
No website and they sell images of their flags. I have not been able to find a book.
Infantry
1st MN
5th MN
7th MN
Cavalry
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Raised: 1st ? 18th Infantry. 1st and 2nd Cavalry
Does not have a website and I have not found any books.
Infantry
Cavalry
NEW JERSEY
Raised: 1st ? 40th Infantry. 1st ? 3rd Cavalry.
They have a good website but with little historical information, but a book is being written but has not been published.
Infantry
Go on the website and tell me which ones you want.
Cavalry
Go on the website and tell me which ones you want.
NEW YORK
Raised: 1st ? 194th Infantry. 1st ? 25th Cavalry.
Has a good website with some historical information. They are in the beginning of their flag preservation project so new flags are being posted all the time.
Infantry
Go on the website and tell me which ones you want.
63rd NY (Irish Brigade)
69th NY (Irish Brigade)
88th NY (Irish Brigade)
Cavalry
Go on the website and tell me which ones you want.
OHIO
Raised: 1st ? 197th (127 Coloured) Infantry. 1st ? 13th Cavalry.
Has a good website but little historical information.
Infantry
Go on the website and tell me which ones you want.
Cavalry
Go on the website and tell me which ones you want.
PENNSYLVANIA
Raised: 23rd thru 215th Regiments, the 30th thru the 41st regiments were the 1st thru the 12th Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps respectively. 1st ? 22nd
Cavalry.
Some regiments carried their blue regimental colour and others did not. Not many of the blue regimental flags remain.
Have an outstanding website and a 2 volume series published with good historical information for its flags.
Infantry
Go on the website and tell me which ones you want.
Cavalry
Go on the website and tell me which ones you want.
RHODE ISLAND
Raised: 1st ? 12th Infantry. 1st ? 3rd Cavalry.
No website and I can?t find any information.
Infantry
Cavalry
VERMONT
Raised: 1st ? 18th Infantry. 1st Cavalry.
No website but 22 images was sent to me by a local historian and I have not been able to find a book.
Infantry
3rd VT
5th VT
6th VT
7th VT
8th VT
9th VT
11th VT
12th VT
14th VT
16th VT
17th VT
Cavalry
1st VT
WISCONSIN
Raised: 1st ? 38th Infantry. 1st ? 4th Cavalry
No website but about 100 images were sent to me by one of the museum personal. Also, included was good historical information for the flags.
Infantry
2nd WI (Iron Brigade)
3rd WI
6th WI (Iron Brigade)
7th WI (Iron Brigade)
13th WI
Cavalry