U.S. Infantry Pole - Infantry Regiment

U.S. Infantry Pole & Finial - Infantry Regiment.
The Howard Michael Madaus sub-collection of Civil War Military Flags was assembled from a variety of sources over a thirty year period of collecting (1970-2000) before being acquired by the Zaricor Collection in 2000. The sub-collection attempts to present an example of each of the major types of depot contractor regulation flags and colors carried by Union forces at the basic unit level, i.e. regiment, battalion, company, and battery, as well as the types of general military flags.

This sub-collection (Howard Michael Madaus collection) added to the Zaricor Civil War collection is the largest and (while not complete) most comprehensive collection of the military flags carried by the Union Army during the Civil War outside of state repositories designated by the War Department for the disposition of these flags after the War or in public museum collections. In fact this private collection is larger and more comprehensive than many of the public museum collections in the United States.

These are accessories for a "Stand of Colors". The Madaus collection of American Civil War Flags also includes flag staffs, cords & tassels, and flag slings. The collection includes six Civil War identified flag staffs, six sets of cords & tassels (four of Civil War vintage and two from a later period) and twenty variations of flag slings and belts, dating from before the war, throughout the Civil War and on into the first two decades of the Twentieth Century.

ZFC Significant Flag
Item is Framed

Sources:

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Madaus, Howard M.- Whitney Smith, The American Flag: Two Centuries of Concord and Conflict, VZ Publications, Santa Cruz, 2006.

Madaus, Howard M., correspondence to Ben Zaricor, 29 March 2000, Zaricor Flag Collection Archives.

US Army Quartermaster General, Flags of the Army of the United States carried during the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, to designate the headquarters of the different armies, army corps, divisions and brigades, Washington, D.C., 1887.

Todd, Frederick P., American Military Equipage 1851-1872, Volume 2, Providence, The Company of Military Historians, 1977.

Katcher, Phillip, Flags of the American Civil War, 2: Union, London, Osprey, 1993.

Militia of 1863 51st Regiment, 13 November 2011, from:
http://www.pa-roots.com/pacw/1863militia/1863militiainfco51.htm

Image Credits:
Zaricor Flag Collection

Hoist & Fly
Width of Hoist	104
Length of Fly	1

Frame
Is it framed?	yes
Frame Height	72
Frame Length	76

Stars
Are there stars on obverse?	no
Are there stars on reverse?	no

Stripes
Has a Blood Stripe?	no

Documentation
Documents	All original documents and drawings are held in the Zaricor Flag Collection Archives.
Drawings	All original documents and drawings are held in the Zaricor Flag Collection Archives.

Condition
Condition	Good
Damage	Used
Displayable	yes

Date
Date	1863