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DISTINGUISHING FLAGS |
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III
CORPS • ARMY OF THE POTOMAC |
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On 7 February 1863 Army of the Potomac General
Order No. 10 specified a designating flag for headquarters of corps:
blue, swallowtailed, with the number of the corps in red on a white botonee-style cross. Then on 12 May 1863 General Order No. 53
specified a complete set of division and brigade flags. Each corps
was assigned a unique badge (a diamond for III Corps) which appeared on
these flags. The corps headquarters flags, however, were not changed
until 1864, when General Order No. 115 specified that they were to
bear their number on the corps badge. The III Corps was
dissolved in March 1864, possibly before it received a flag of that pattern,
though one is shown by Flags of the Army of the United States Carried During
the War of the Rebellion, published in 1887 under the direction
of the Quartermaster General, US Army. At the time of its
dissolution III Corps had only two divisions; these were transferred
to II Corps
but were permitted to retain their III Corps badges and flags. |
