Civil War buffs will be able to browse Pa.’s treasured regimental flag collection in new exhibit
Battle-stained flags that survived ferocious fighting fill drawers in cabinets inside the Pennsylvania Civil War Battle Flag Education Center in Harrisburg.
Each one serves as a memento of a fight to preserve the Union and a connection to the Pennsylvanians who participated in that war. Some are in tatters; others riddled with bullet holes.
But all are treasured and conserved to the greatest extent possible for schoolchildren, Civil War enthusiasts and re-enactors and historians to see these 19th century communication tools that gave soldiers on the noisy, chaotic battlefields their direction.