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 possibly a new national color and possibly the blue silk regimental color seen here. The regiment deposited this flag into the NYS Battle Flag Collection on July 3, 1865. This blue silk regimental color includes 34 stars and the Arms of the United States painted in the center. The unit’s numeric designation does not appear on the lower red ribbon below the Arms. The color does have some losses to the silk fabric, most noticeably along the fly edge and in the center. The flag received a netting treatment in 1960s-70s. The netting treatment included removing the fringe, machine stitching the flag between two layers of nylon net, and then reattaching the fringe. Although the work followed common practice at the time, the netting actually damaged the fabric and accelerated the flag’s deterioration.