Battle Flags Find a New Home
Visitors to the State Capitol
fondly remember its rotunda ringed with battle flags. The flags now show the ravages not
only of battle, but also of storage under less than ideal conditions. Now, new storage at the Michigan Historical
Museum permits the flags of this 230-flag collection (160 from the Civil War) to lay flat,
supported by archival fabric, in a room where the temperature and humidity
are controlled.
(The Capitol now features reproductions of the original flags in its rotunda
cases.)
Rally Round the Flags is about flags: Civil War flags, but also Spanish-American
and World War I flags. It is about the efforts of the Michigan Capitol
Committee, the Save the Flags program and the Michigan
Historical Museum to save the delicate flags. Conservation work, made possible through
funds raised by Save the Flags, will help preserve the flags throughout the coming
years.
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