Battery K, 1st Regiment Artillery (Light), NY Volunteers | Guidon | Civil War
Flag dimensions: 30 3/4" hoist X 40 3/4" fly.
(2004.0078)
The NYS Battle Flag Collection includes one flag carried by Battery K, 1st Regiment Artillery (Light), NY Volunteers, a silk swallowtail guidon in the “stars and stripes” pattern prescribed in General Order No. 4, dated January 18, 1862. The flag includes a painted inscription in gold along the bottom half. The canton includes 34 painted stars in the typical concentric circle star pattern.