Description:

This swallowtail silk national flag has 34 gold-colored painted stars arranged in two concentric circles with 12 in the inner circle, 18 stars in the outer circle, and one star in each corner.  There is some loss along the fly edge of the flag.  The hoist end was fashioned into a sleeve for attachment to the staff.

The staff, which measures 89” by 1”, is topped by a spade-shaped finial.  The staffs of flags returned to the state at the 1866 Detroit ceremony marking the end of the war all bear identical brass plaques.  The brass plaque reads in Spencerian script “14th Mich. Battery”.

The flag has a 92” gold-colored twisted cord with two gold-colored tassels measuring 1.25” in diameter.  The tassels were formed over a wooden core.