Reagan Library Exhibition

Early American Regimental Color of the 2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 5th Division Inscribed to the 2nd Regiment of the 2nd Brigade of the 5th Division, this flag mimics the blue flag with the American eagle arms in the center, introduced as the U.S. National Color in the 1790s.

7 Star Confederate 1st National Camp Flag, March - April 1861, former Star Spangled Banner Flag House Collection. This flag bearing the first Confederate National pattern was authenticated by the Smithsonian Institution and examined by Howard Madaus who identified it, most likely, as a camp flag.

37 Star U.S. Flag laid upon President Lincoln's casket in Philadelphia, PA 1865. On April of 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by Southern sympathizer in revenge for the Northern triumph over the South. A shocked and stunned country embraced their martyred President as never before.

34 Star Grand Luminary Flag used in President Lincoln's Funeral. After his assassination a funeral cortege by railroad was planned. At each stop his body would lay in state so that the nation might mourn its fallen martyr. This flag was flying when Lincoln's funeral train arrived at Albany on the tracks of the NY Central Railroad.