U.S. flag

Accession number: 1992.189

This United States flag of thirty-one stars was one of the first to fly over captured Richmond after Union troops arrived on April 3, 1865. It descended in the family of Frederick Martin, brevet lieutenant colonel of volunteers, captain 1st Eastern Virginia Volunteers, who worked for the U.S. army in Richmond until 1866.

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