Designating Flag, Chief Quartermaster, 8th Army Corps
Object Details
- Description
- Wool bunting tapered swallowtail flag. Red field with two diagonally crossed stripes. Each stripe runs from one end of the hoist to the opposite end of the fly; the stripes cross at the fork in the swallowtail. Painted in the center of the flag, to the left of the cross in the stripes, is a white number "8". White hoist with no grommets. Inscription on hoist reads "Ch'f Q. M. 8 Army Corps".
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- AF.25238C
- catalog number
- 25238C
- accession number
- 64127
- Object Name
- flag, designating
- Physical Description
- wool (overall material)
- paint (number "8" material)
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
- Civil War
- Military
- Flags
- Designating Flags
- classified
- Flags
- Subject
- Civil War
- related event
- Civil War
- Record ID
- nmah_1381040
