South Carolina militia flag
- Image
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- Created Date
- 1861
- Description
Dark blue taffeta with painted designs on both sides; obverse: green and brown palmetto tree with red bow around trunk; bow carries two oval shields - one a white palmetto on light blue ground, the other red star on light blue ground; above design in gold "UNION DISTRICT VOLUNTEERS" below design "JANUARY 12. 1861." ; reverse: large gold painted star surrounded by "OUR RIGHTS" (in gold) "FROM THE LADIES OF UNIONVILLE (in red) "Against the World ...
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Information forms (objects)
Information artifacts
Flags
Union District Volunteers. South Carolina
Civil War, 1861-1865
Armed forces
Militias - Location
- Unionville, (S.C.)
- Type
- physical object
- Format
- Height: (40 in)Width (45 in)Silk (fiber)TaffetaPaint (coating)
- Language
- English
- Rights
- No known copyright restrictions.
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- Chicago citation style
- South Carolina militia flag. 1861. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/2131. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (1861) South Carolina militia flag. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/2131
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/2131>.