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80th Regiment NY Volunteer Infantry | Regimental Color | Civil War

On December 15, 1862, as the 80th New York Volunteers or 20th New York State Militia skirmished below Fredericksburg, Virginia, ladies from Saugerties presented the Regimental Color seen here to the regiment in a public ceremony at the Reform Dutch Church…

https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/flags/infantry/80th-regiment-ny-volunteer-infantry/80th-regiment-ny-volunteer-infantry-regimental-color-civil-war

81st Regiment NY Volunteer Infantry | Camp Colors | Civil War

Printed wool camp colors in the US national pattern as prescribed in General Order No. 4, Headquarters of the U.S. Army, dated 18 January 1862. These early-war camp colors include 34 white stars in five horizontal rows. When constructed, the wool was roll…

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82nd Regiment NY Volunteer Infantry | Flank Marker | Civil War

This blue silk flank marker features painted inscriptions on both sides and twisted and looped fringe along the top, fly and bottom edges. Confederate forces captured the flank marker - possibly at Bull Run, Virginia, July 21, 1861, or near Petersburg, Vi…

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83rd Regiment NY Volunteer Infantry | Flank Marker | Civil War

This blue silk flank marker features painted inscriptions in gold, shadowed in red, along the top and bottom. The regiment’s numeric designation, in gold paint, appears in a red painted oval shield edged with a gold painted border in the center of the fla…

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84th Regiment NY Volunteer Infantry | Regimental Color | Civil War

All that remains from this flag are silk fragments featuring a stylized version of the Arms of the State of New York. The inscription along the bottom reads, "THE PRICE OF LIBERTY IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE." In the 1960s the fragment was sandwiched between two…

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86th Regiment NY Volunteer Infantry | National Color | Civil War

The “ladies of Addison” presented this flag to Company B, which was recruited in Addison. After company commander Captain William Angle suffered a mortal wound at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3, 1863, the regiment adopted the flag as the unit’s officia…

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86th Regiment NY Volunteer Infantry | Guidons | Civil War

The NYS Battle Flag Collection includes two silk swallowtail guidons carried by the 86th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry. Each guidon conforms to the “stars and stripes” pattern prescribed in General Order No. 4, dated January 18, 1862. Both guidons …

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87th Regiment NY Volunteer Infantry | Regimental Color | Civil War

The 87th Regiment, or “Brooklyn Rifles,” mustered into service for three years between October and December 1861. On Sept. 6, 1862, the regiment consolidated with the 40th Regiment N. Y. Volunteer Infantry, in which organization its members completed thei…

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88th Regiment NY Volunteer Infantry | Regimental Color | Civil War

In the autumn of 1862, Tiffany & Co. of New York City produced national colors and green regimental colors, known as “Irish Colors,” for each New York regiment in the “Irish Brigade,” including this flag for the 88th New York Volunteers. Amazingly, on Dec…

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91st Regiment NY Volunteer Infantry | National Color | Civil War

On December 21, 1861, as the 91st New York Volunteers prepared to leave Albany, New York, for the seat of war, the regiment assembled outside Alderman John W. Harcourt’s residence on Lydius Street where Mrs. Harcourt presented the home town regiment with …

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