Flag

Object Name:

Flag

Object ID:

1982.009.01

Place of Origin:

Concord, NH

Date:

1862

Description:

Flag. United States. Hand stitched at 12 stitches/inch. 13 5.5" wide stripes. Seven strips of red (now faded to blush) silk plain woven taffeta stripes 0.125" flat felled seamed to six ecru stripes. Canton rests on the white stripe with a blue silk taffeta field and 34 2.75" gold hand-painted stars arranged in two ovals with one in the center and one on each of the four corners. Hoist end has a self facing 2.25" hem cotton lining pressed towards the reverse side. Three edges have 2.5" gold braided silk fringe topstitched to the obverse side. Ten brass rings, each 0.5" in diameter are stitched along the hoist end. "Col. Bixby Flag / For Lyman Jackman / of the old 6th Regt. / Presented to the Regt by the / Friendly ladies of Concord, N.H. / In 1862 while we / were in camp at Roanoke Island, / N.C." hand written in ink on a piece of the cover of a box that contained the flag.

Material:

Textile
Silk

Dimensions:

W-77.5 L-77 inches

Provenance:

United States flag presented to the 6th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers by the "friendly ladies of Concord, N.H. in 1862" while in camp at Roanoke Island, N.C. The flag was owned by 6th Regiment Col. Phineas P. Bixby (1829-1877) and after his death by regimental historian Lyman Jackman (1837-1913). Jackman was the grandfather of the donor, Catherine J. Wolf (1918-2007).

Credit Line:

Gift of Catherine J. Wolf

People:

Bixby, Phineas P. (1829-1877), Jackman, Lyman (1837-1913), Wolf, Catherine J. (1918-2007)

Subjects:

Flags, American flag, Stars, Stripes, Banners, Civil War