Union Flags. | It involved a cannon crossing a fouled anchor on a shield. As described above, hospital flags were also marked with a Roman letter II in green, and small rectangular guidons of yellow edged with green were used to pair of regimental colours in action, 27 June 1X62, during the Peninsula r Campaign. The corps was still under the command of Gen. Schofield, while the 2 divisions, 2nd and 3rd, were commanded, respectively, by Generals Ruger and Cox.

Burnside moved next to Knoxville, which place was invested and finally assaulted by Longstreet, but without success. This system apparently failed, for General Orders No. Shop Center—a plain light blue flag. Gen. James Longstreet's Corps had been detached from Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army, and, in October, 1863, marched into East Tennessee to drive out Burnside's Army of the Ohio, as the united forces of the Ninth and XXIII Corps were then designated. I Iospitals were distinguished by a yellow (lag. In early 1865 the badges adopted by the corps within the division were painted on it. The corps badge was placed on the field of each, red in the first division, w hite in the second division, and blue in the third division. On 7 February 1863, according to General Orders No. | .\ote the spcarpoint finial on the regimental colour. The first division's blue shield had a blue cannon crossing a white anchor; the second division's white shield had a red cannon crossing a blue anchor; and the third division's blue shield had a white cannon crossing a red anchor. W hen Major-General Philip Sheridan received command of the Army of the Shenandoah he appears to have used a swallow-tailed cavalry guidon to mark his headquarters. Yellow frame, red panels; 2d Div. Subsistence depots or store-houses—a plain light green flag, 3 feet square. While on the Atlanta campaign, Gen. Judah was succeeded by Gen. Hascall in the command of the 2nd Division.

It is halved red and blue, thired towards the hoist and the blue towards the fly. The 2nd Division (White's) made its rendezvous at New Market, from whence it marched on the 19th, arriving at Loudon, Tenn., on the 4th of September. the army's final commander, Major-General George G. Meade, adopted a new headquarters flag. The national colour is topped with an eagle while the regimental colour has :t Spike tinial. Contents[show] Creation In October 1862 the XIII Corps and XIV Corps were created in the Western Theater. The colour guard of the j6th Massachusetts 1 olunteer I11 fan try Regiment hold their 1 veil-worn colours in this picture dating from late in thenar. The artillery will wear the badge of the division to which the different batteries are respectively attached.'. This system w as abandoned w hen the XXIV and XXV Corps replaced the original corps in the Army. As the Union's field armies grew in size, various of their commanders attempted to make units easy to identify in the field through systems of unique flags carried by each formation and unit. The fighting was continuous, minor engagements occurring almost daily, and on November l6th a spirited battle occurred at Campbell's Station, in which White's Division was actively engaged. Each corps' first division was to have a white rectangular flag with a red corps badge in its centre; the second division had a blue flag with a w hite corps badge; the third, a w hite flag w ith a blue corps badge. The Army of the James was created from the X and XVIII Corps in 1864. According to the order, the cross w as to be a 'Maltese cross', but actual examples show it to have been the cross botonee that Butterfield, w ho designed the corps badges later used in the Army of the Potomac, earlier suggested for the V Corps.

IX Corps was detached and sent back to rejoin the Army of the Potomac, so the "army" consisted entirely of XXIII Corps, now commanded by John M. Schofield. The same order indicated a system of flags to identify the headquarters of these commands: 'III. But on June 6, 1864, the 1st Division was broken up and divided between the other 2 divisions.