Description:

This swallowtail silk national flag has thirty-five gold painted stars arranged in concentric circles with eleven stars in the inner circle, twenty stars in the outer circle and one star in each corner.  There is loss along the fly edge.  There are also several small holes evenly spaced along the bottom four stripes.  It appears that the flag was damaged while furled.  The hoist end was fashioned into a sleeve for attachment to the staff.

The staff, which measures 89.5” 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 “Battery J 1st Arty”.