Premium pages left without account:

Auction archive: Lot number 215

CIVIL WAR]. ARMY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. Battle flag of the First Alabama Cavalry, in the rare Saint Andrew's Cross pattern, captured by the 19th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in battle at Wild Cat Mountain, near Mount Vernon, Kentucky, in Oc...

Auction 17.05.1996
17 May 1996
Estimate
US$65,000 - US$85,000
Price realised:
US$63,000
Auction archive: Lot number 215

CIVIL WAR]. ARMY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. Battle flag of the First Alabama Cavalry, in the rare Saint Andrew's Cross pattern, captured by the 19th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in battle at Wild Cat Mountain, near Mount Vernon, Kentucky, in Oc...

Auction 17.05.1996
17 May 1996
Estimate
US$65,000 - US$85,000
Price realised:
US$63,000
Beschreibung:

CIVIL WAR]. ARMY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. Battle flag of the First Alabama Cavalry, in the rare Saint Andrew's Cross pattern, captured by the 19th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in battle at Wild Cat Mountain, near Mount Vernon, Kentucky, in October 1862. Blue and red cotton, and white silk, in a St. Andrew's Cross pattern: 12 white silk six-pointed stars are located on the blue arms of the cross, against a red ground; approximately 780 x 1540mm. (30 3/4 x 61 in.), plus 150mm. (6 in.) wide pink silk border (deteriorated), faint reddish-brown stains to lower right-hand portion (reportedly the blood of the standard bearer from whom it was captured), matted in a large, giltwood frame, glazed under UV-40 plexiglas . Unexamined out of frame. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from Howard Madaus, author of Battle Flags of the Confederate Army of the Tennessee , Milwaukee 1976. Sold not subject to return. AN IMPORTANT CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG CARRIED BY A HIGHLY DECORATED UNIT, THE FIRST ALABAMA CAVALRY (CLANTON'S CAVALRY) The First Alabama, commanded by Colonel James H. Clanton, was organized in November 1861 and in the course of the war, fought in over 300 battles, engagements and skirmishes, making it one of the most engaged units active during the War Between the States. It fought at Shiloh in April 1862 on the Confederate left flank, and during the Kentucky campaigns of General Braxton Bragg's Army of the Tennessee, it saw action at Munfordville (14-17 September 1862), Perryville (8 October 1862) and, in a series of skirmishes and actions which took place during the Confederate retreat into east Tennessee. The First Alabama Cavalry had fought daily since 18 September. At Wild Cat Mountain, Kentucky (16-21 October 1862), this battle flag was captured from the standard bearer, reportedly by Captain Thomas Stackpole, Company D, Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry (at the time Stackpole was assigned to the Forty-First Ohio). The First Alabama subsequently fought at Murfreesboro, Tennessee (31 December 1862) and in the Chickamauga campaign (August-September 1863). This present pattern of Confederate standard, the St. Andrew's Cross, is a distinct design chosen by General P.G.T Beauregard in September 1861. Beauregard issued this pattern to Bragg shortly after the latter took command of the Second Division in February 1862. For this reason, it became known as the "Bragg's Corps Battleflag"; it is likely to have been sewn in New Orleans. The design did not prove popular, and few flags of this type are extant today (the state of Alabama, according to Robert Bradley of the Alabama Archives, possesses a single example). Provenance: In the 1940s the flag was reportedly housed at a Grand Army of the Republic post in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The present owner reports that previously it was accompanied by an engraved plate reading: "Confederate Flag. Captured by Capt. Stackpole 41st Ohio from the flag bearer of the 1st Alabama Cavalry at the Wild Cat Mount skirmish, near Mt. Vernon, Kentucky. The blood stains are of the color bearer."

Auction archive: Lot number 215
Auction:
Datum:
17 May 1996
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

CIVIL WAR]. ARMY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. Battle flag of the First Alabama Cavalry, in the rare Saint Andrew's Cross pattern, captured by the 19th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in battle at Wild Cat Mountain, near Mount Vernon, Kentucky, in October 1862. Blue and red cotton, and white silk, in a St. Andrew's Cross pattern: 12 white silk six-pointed stars are located on the blue arms of the cross, against a red ground; approximately 780 x 1540mm. (30 3/4 x 61 in.), plus 150mm. (6 in.) wide pink silk border (deteriorated), faint reddish-brown stains to lower right-hand portion (reportedly the blood of the standard bearer from whom it was captured), matted in a large, giltwood frame, glazed under UV-40 plexiglas . Unexamined out of frame. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from Howard Madaus, author of Battle Flags of the Confederate Army of the Tennessee , Milwaukee 1976. Sold not subject to return. AN IMPORTANT CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG CARRIED BY A HIGHLY DECORATED UNIT, THE FIRST ALABAMA CAVALRY (CLANTON'S CAVALRY) The First Alabama, commanded by Colonel James H. Clanton, was organized in November 1861 and in the course of the war, fought in over 300 battles, engagements and skirmishes, making it one of the most engaged units active during the War Between the States. It fought at Shiloh in April 1862 on the Confederate left flank, and during the Kentucky campaigns of General Braxton Bragg's Army of the Tennessee, it saw action at Munfordville (14-17 September 1862), Perryville (8 October 1862) and, in a series of skirmishes and actions which took place during the Confederate retreat into east Tennessee. The First Alabama Cavalry had fought daily since 18 September. At Wild Cat Mountain, Kentucky (16-21 October 1862), this battle flag was captured from the standard bearer, reportedly by Captain Thomas Stackpole, Company D, Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry (at the time Stackpole was assigned to the Forty-First Ohio). The First Alabama subsequently fought at Murfreesboro, Tennessee (31 December 1862) and in the Chickamauga campaign (August-September 1863). This present pattern of Confederate standard, the St. Andrew's Cross, is a distinct design chosen by General P.G.T Beauregard in September 1861. Beauregard issued this pattern to Bragg shortly after the latter took command of the Second Division in February 1862. For this reason, it became known as the "Bragg's Corps Battleflag"; it is likely to have been sewn in New Orleans. The design did not prove popular, and few flags of this type are extant today (the state of Alabama, according to Robert Bradley of the Alabama Archives, possesses a single example). Provenance: In the 1940s the flag was reportedly housed at a Grand Army of the Republic post in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The present owner reports that previously it was accompanied by an engraved plate reading: "Confederate Flag. Captured by Capt. Stackpole 41st Ohio from the flag bearer of the 1st Alabama Cavalry at the Wild Cat Mount skirmish, near Mt. Vernon, Kentucky. The blood stains are of the color bearer."

Auction archive: Lot number 215
Auction:
Datum:
17 May 1996
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Try LotSearch

Try LotSearch and its premium features for 7 days - without any costs!

  • Search lots and bid
  • Price database and artist analysis
  • Alerts for your searches
Create an alert now!

Be notified automatically about new items in upcoming auctions.

Create an alert