A view of flag of the 119th New York Volunteers at a new exhibit of Civil War battle flags, entitled 1863: Loyal Till Death, on display on the first floor at the State Capitol, seen here on Monday ...

A piece of Civil War history has returned to Maine after almost 160 years.The 159-year-old flag was mailed to the Maine Military Museum, along with a picture of James H. Whitmore, who commanded ...

The Union battle flag bears 35 stars and was the one most flown by Union forces during the Civil War, said Lee Humiston, director and curator of the museum. Examples are rare and this one has a ...

LOWELL, Mass.– Union troops were deep in enemy territory, outnumbered badly by Confederate forces on a battlefield in Clinton, La., near the Mississippi border. Among the Union troops in ...

A piece of Civil War history has returned to Maine after almost 160 years.The 159-year-old flag was mailed to the Maine Military Museum, along with a picture of James H. Whitmore, who commanded ...