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.  The letter “E” is painted in center of the circle of stars. On the fifth white stripe is painted the regimental designation “1ST MICH. ARTL’Y.”  There is some loss along the fly edge.  The hoist end was fashioned into a sleeve for attachment to the staff.

The staff, which measures 93.5” by 1”, is missing a finial, but has a flange where the finial would have attached.  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 E 1st Arty”.