Two worn Civil War flags set to be saved National News from AP
World News from AP Cliff Eckle, a curator at the Ohio Historical
Society, prepares two Civil War flags to be restored as a result
of donated funds. The top flag is an 1863 flank marker for the
5th U.S. Colored Infantry; the other is the regimental colors of
the 4th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. Two more flags that flew as
Ohioans fought and died during the Civil War are being repaired
and restored to their former glory thanks to private donations.
Although flags from the 5th U.S. Colored Infantry and the 4th
Ohio Volunteer Cavalry will be saved, hundreds of others are
falling to pieces at the Ohio Historical Society because of lack
of funds to preserve them. Nearly 150 years later, the smell of
gunpowder still clings to some. The small "flank" flag from the
5th U.S. Colored Infantry, the first black troops to be
organized in Ohio, and the regimental colors of the 4th Ohio
Volunteer Cavalry, a unit from Cincinnati that participated in
many major battles,