1st Vermont Battery Regimental Flag

1st Vermont Battery, Light Artillery, Regimental Flag.jpg

Title

Creator

Manufactured by Charles Eaton

Description

Regimental flag of the 1st Vermont Light Artillery Battery. Silk flag, swallowtail form, with red upper half and and white lower half, crossed cannons behind Vermont state coat of arms painted at center. Inscription: VERMONT. 1st Vermont Battery returned to Brattleboro, Vermont in August of 1864 and mustered out on August 10. Their colors were then sent on to Montpelier.

Date

1863

Subject

United States. Army. Vermont Light Artillery Battery, 1st (1862-1864)

Vermont--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Flags

Extent

38 x 48 inches

Identifier

1870.002.001

Coverage

Boston (Mass.)

Original Format

Flag

Repository

Vermont State Curator's Office, 2 Gov. Aiken Avenue,
Montpelier, VT 05633

Collection

Vermont Civil War Flag Collection

Citation

Manufactured by Charles Eaton , “1st Vermont Battery Regimental Flag,” Digital Vermont: A Project of the Vermont Historical Society, accessed December 16, 2024, https://digitalvermont.org/items/show/75.