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DISTINGUISHING FLAGS |
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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 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.
Before joining the Army of the
Potomac, IX Corps constituted an independent command under Major
General Ambrose E. Burnside. His
headquarters flag was a variant of
the National Flag with the IX Corps badge in the canton. This was
changed to the standard swallotailed blue flag with badge when IX
Corps joined the Army of the Potomac, though without the corps
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