Designating Flag, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps
Designating Flag, 2nd Division, 18th Army Corps
- Description
- Physical Description:
- Wool bunting rectangular flag. Blue field with a large white cotton cross bottony in the center of the flag. White cotton hoist with a grommet at each end. The inscription on the hoist reads "18TH ARMY/CORPS 2ND DIVISION." Machine and hand stitching; flat-felled seams.
- General Description:
- Eighteenth Army Corps (24 December 1862 - 2 December 1864)
- The Eighteenth Army Corps badge was issued in General Orders No. 108 on 25 August 1864, a cross with foliate sides. Prior to this order, the Eighteenth Corps had its own designating flag system, with headquarters flag 6' x 6', a red field bearing the white number "18".
- The Eighteenth Corps was first to create a brigade strength African American unit. On December 3, 1864, the black soldiers of the Eighteenth and the soldiers of the Tenth Army Corps formed the new Twenty-Fifth Corps. The remaining soldiers in the Eighteenth joined those in the old fifth Army Corps to make up the new Twenty-Fourth Corps.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- flag, designating
- date made
- ca 1864
- Physical Description
- wool (overall material)
- cotton (part: applique material)
- cotton (part: heading material)
- Measurements
- overall: 71 in x 56 in; 180.34 cm x 142.24 cm
- ID Number
- AF.25277C
- catalog number
- 25277C
- accession number
- 64127
- Credit Line
- U.S. War Department
- subject
- Flags
- Civil War
- Civil War
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, Military
- Civil War
- Military
- Designating Flags
- Flags
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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