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Designating Flag, Headquarters, 3rd Army Corps

ca 1876 · wool (overall material)

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Wool bunting swallowtail flag. Blue field with a large white hand-stitched diamond in the center of the flag. A red cotton number "3" is hand-stitched to the white diamond. White cotton canvas heading with a metal grommet at either end. Flag panels and hoist are machine stitched. Flag panels have flat-felled seams. Stitched using brown, white, and undyed cotton thread. Inscription on hoist reads "3RD ARMY/CORP HEADQUARTERS".

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Flags

Credit lineDesignating Flag, Headquarters, 3rd Army Corps. ca 1876. National Museum of American History. CC0.

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