3rd Vermont Battery National Guidon

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Title

3rd Vermont Battery National Guidon

Description

National guidon of the 3rd Vermont Light Artillery Battery. Silk with red and white stripes, blue canton and painted stars (only a single star is extant). Guidon may originally have had a swallowtail shape. A sleeve attached guidon to staff. Finial is missing. No determination of manufacturer has been made, though the commander of the battery signed for one guidon in November of 1864.

Date

1864?

Extent

27 x 25 inches

Identifier

1870.002.005

Original Format

Flag

Repository

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

Citation

“3rd Vermont Battery National Guidon,” Digital Vermont: A Project of the Vermont Historical Society, accessed December 17, 2024, https://digitalvermont.org/items/show/79.