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On April 9, 1799, the Pennsylvania General Assembly authorized the use of the state coat of arms on flags for the state militia. [2] These flags took various forms, most commonly featuring the coat of arms either replacing the field of stars in the union of the US flag, or being placed alone on a field of blue. The depiction of the coat of arms ...
Use: National flag : Proportion: 2:3: Adopted: March 4, 1865: Design: A white rectangle, one-and-a-half times as wide as it is tall, a red vertical stripe on the far right of the rectangle, a red quadrilateral in the canton, inside the canton is a blue saltire with white outlining, with thirteen white five-pointed stars of equal size inside the saltire.
The U.S. state of Pennsylvania has 21 ... Flag: Flag of Pennsylvania: June 13, 1907 [4] [12] Flower: Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) May 5, 1933 [4]
The Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee maintains and preserves just under 400 of Pennsylvania's historic Civil War battle flags The State Museum of Pennsylvania houses an extensive general collection of Civil War artifacts, as well as Peter Rothermel's massive painting of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Pennsylvania's collection of American Civil War (1861-1865) battle flags, which were accumulated in 1866, was moved from the nearby State Arsenal to the second floor of the capitol in 1872. [18] The flags were moved, again, in 1895 to the Executive, Library, and Museum Building. [ 19 ]
There are gaps in the numbering of infantry regiments because Pennsylvania numbered all volunteer regiments, regardless of branch, in sequence depending on when the regiment was raised. For example, the 6th Cavalry was also numbered the 70th Volunteer Regiment since it was raised between the 69th Infantry and the 71st Infantry, so there is no ...
Following this organization's muster-in during late August 1861, its leaders were presented the regiment's First State Color on November 4 by Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin. Manufactured by Horstmann Brothers and Company, this flag was initially carried by the regiment's first color-bearer, Sergeant John D. Beaver. [3]