These are modern all-weather nylon flags for your house or garden based on the original flag carried by the 16th North Carolina Troops. Flag was issued to the regiment in 1863 (separately from the colors of the regiment captured at Gettysburg), this set being never surrendered and carried home with the color bearer at Appomattox.
16th North Infantry Regiment, formerly the 6th Volunteers, completed its organization at Raleigh, North Carolina, in June, 1861. Its members were from the counties of Jackson, Madison, Yancey, Rutherford, Burke, Buncombe, Macon, Henderson, and Polk. Sent to Virginia with about 1,200 men, the regiment was assigned to General W. Hampton's, Pender's, and Scales' Brigade. It served in many battles of the Army of Northern Virginia from Seven Pinesto Cold Harbor, was involved in the long Petersburg siege south of the James River, and was active around Appomattox. It had a force of 721 men in April, 1862, lost 33 killed and 199 wounded during the Seven Days' Battles, had 8 killed and 44 wounded at Second Manassas, and suffered 6 killed and 48 wounded at Fredericksburg. The unit reported 105 casualties at Chancellorsville, and of the 321 engaged at Gettysburg, thirty-seven percent were disabled. It surrendered 12 officers and 83 men.
These flags are made to order and take about 3 weeks to produce and ship.
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These flags are made to order and take about 4 weeks to produce and ship.
