Designating Flag, Headquarters, 3rd Army Corps
National Museum of American History

Designating Flag, Headquarters, 3rd Army Corps

ca 1876

wool (overall material)
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

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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