DISTINGUISHING FLAGS
 


 
CAVALRY CORPS  •  ARMY OF THE POTOMAC  •  1864-65
 

General Order No. 53 (12 May 1863) specified a complete set of division and brigade flags for the corps of the Army of the Potomac. For the Army's Cavalry Corps the order specified only a swallow-tailed corps designation flag: yellow with crossed sabers in white. Divisions of the Cavalry Corps continued to carry designating flags of an earlier pattern. In August 1864, however, a complete set of designating flags of the pattern established by General Order No. 53 was authorized for the Cavalry Corps, and these flags were carried for the rest of the war.
 


 

DESIGNS AUTHORIZED PER GENERAL ORDER NUMBER 53

 

HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS

 

CAVALRY CORPS ARTILLERY BRIGADE

 

CAVALRY CORPS QUARTERMASTER

 

1st DIVISION

 

1st BRIGADE

 

2nd BRIGADE

 

3rd BRIGADE

 

4th BRIGADE

 

2nd DIVISION

 

1st BRIGADE

 

2nd BRIGADE

 

3rd BRIGADE

 

4th BRIGADE

 

3rd DIVISION

 

1st BRIGADE

 

2nd BRIGADE

 

3rd BRIGADE
 

 

4th BRIGADE
 



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