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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 (a trefoil for II 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. In the spring of 1864 II Corps
counted four divisions, two having been transferred from the
dissolved III Corps. |
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