Description:

This swallowtail silk national flag has thirty-four gold painted stars arranged in concentric circles with twelve stars in the inner circle, eighteen stars in the outer circle and one star in each corner.  It is quite intact with only a little loss long the fly edge.  The hoist end was fashioned into a sleeve for attachment to a staff.

The staff, which measures 89.5” by 1.25”, 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 “Battery B 1st Arty”.