Post by Robert Braun on Feb 25, 2002 14:34:27 GMT -5
There exists a tiny, but growing body of knowledge on company flags in Wisconsin regiments, and the Thirty-third Regiment in particular.
The first inkling we had on company flags wasa post-war image of the flag of Company D-- the Blake's Prairie Rangers. The image was mis-filed in the various files of the Grant County Hisotrical Society and found quite by accident by Mike Thorson and "yours truly" on a research trip several years ago.
The flag, a sild National color with spearhead and tassels, swathed in battle honors, was in the keeping of a Thirty-third veteran until his dead... when the flag came into the possession of the Wisconsin Historical Society. We understand that this unrestored flag very likely resides in the collection of the Wisconsin Veteran's Museum.
The flag of the "Lovell Guards"--Company I from the city of Kenosha-- had been somewhat conserved, and on display in the former quarters of the Kenosha County Historical Society for many years. The flag, also a silk national color bearing battle honors including "Vicksburg," was very likely used as a recruiting tool when the Thirty-third sent a recruting detachment home in the late fall-winter, 1863.
Thanks to our resourceful friend from Kenosha, Mr Don Jensen, the unrestored flag of the "Union Avengers"-- COmpany H from Kenosha County. This flag, a National color of wool bunting, was apparently hand-sewn by local ladies, and bears no company or regimental designation, like the flags of Companies D and I. The union bears six-pointed stars (conforming to the rules of European heraldry)... but only stars enough to represent the states remaining loyal to the Union! The flag of the Union Avengers is known to have graced at least one post-war veteran's reunion of Companies H and I.
We would be very interested to learn any other information about these or other company flags of the Thirty-third Wisconsin!
The first inkling we had on company flags wasa post-war image of the flag of Company D-- the Blake's Prairie Rangers. The image was mis-filed in the various files of the Grant County Hisotrical Society and found quite by accident by Mike Thorson and "yours truly" on a research trip several years ago.
The flag, a sild National color with spearhead and tassels, swathed in battle honors, was in the keeping of a Thirty-third veteran until his dead... when the flag came into the possession of the Wisconsin Historical Society. We understand that this unrestored flag very likely resides in the collection of the Wisconsin Veteran's Museum.
The flag of the "Lovell Guards"--Company I from the city of Kenosha-- had been somewhat conserved, and on display in the former quarters of the Kenosha County Historical Society for many years. The flag, also a silk national color bearing battle honors including "Vicksburg," was very likely used as a recruiting tool when the Thirty-third sent a recruting detachment home in the late fall-winter, 1863.
Thanks to our resourceful friend from Kenosha, Mr Don Jensen, the unrestored flag of the "Union Avengers"-- COmpany H from Kenosha County. This flag, a National color of wool bunting, was apparently hand-sewn by local ladies, and bears no company or regimental designation, like the flags of Companies D and I. The union bears six-pointed stars (conforming to the rules of European heraldry)... but only stars enough to represent the states remaining loyal to the Union! The flag of the Union Avengers is known to have graced at least one post-war veteran's reunion of Companies H and I.
We would be very interested to learn any other information about these or other company flags of the Thirty-third Wisconsin!
