The 111th New York Volunteers, from Cayuga and Wayne counties, served from August 1862 to June 1865. The regiment participated in over 20 battles including at Reams Station, Virginia, August 25, 1864, where the Confederates captured a battle flag of the 111th New York Volunteers – most likely the unit’s national color. The 111th New York Volunteers presumably received a new stand of colors after Reams Station including, most likely, the national color seen here. Pieced together in red, white, and blue silk, the flag includes 35 gold-colored, painted stars in a double elliptical pattern in a rectangular-shaped blue canton, a design attributed to those flags distributed by the Schuylkill Arsenal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At some point in time the 111th New York Volunteers added their unit designation in white paint in the canton and added battle honors in blue and white paint in the stripes to recognize the unit’s service from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863, through Reams Station, Virginia, August 1864. The fact that the battle honors end with Reams Station (and does not include subsequent battles) may indicate the regiment received the flag shortly after Reams Station, August 1864. The regiment deposited this flag into the NYS Battle Flag Collection on July 3, 1865, and a century later, in 1966, a flag restorer machine-stitched the flag between two layers of nylon net. Although not a recommended treatment by today’s standards, the netting did prevent additional losses.