Civil War 12th New Hampshire Infantry Vet Flag

Fantastic Civil War Veterans GAR 38th Star Flag measuring 9 X 6 1/2 inches from a member who served with the 12th New Hampshire Volunteers. This flag was given out for the 20th Reunion held at Gilmanton Iron Works N.H. Friday September 1885. This flag was used from (1877-1890). Excellent. THE fact that this regiment sprang into potential existence in about three days, and that for three years lacking only three months it served in the armies of the Potomac and the James, where, by a loss of more than one third of its members in killed and wounded, it made for itself a record of valor and sacrifice unsurpassed, if equalled, by any other regiment of infantry in the Union army, is convincingly suggestive to the reader how inadequate and incomplete must be the brief skeleton sketch that can be...