Save the Flags: Old State House Museum Battle Flag Preservation Project

Next year the Old State House Museum will mark the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with four years of exciting exhibits, reenactments and programs. The Museum will commemorate this transformational event by hosting five exhibits from 2011 to 2015. Exhibit planning has begun and includes the conservation of two newly-acquired Arkansas Confederate battle flags. We need your help to preserve these irreplaceable artifacts.

This past fall, the Old State House Museum and the Missouri State Museum exchanged ownership of Civil War battle flags, returning them to the appropriate states. The Old State House Museum received two Arkansas flags and transferred a Missouri flag from its collection to that of the Missouri State Museum.

One of the two flags is a Confederate Second National pattern battle flag carried by the Consolidated 6th & 7th Arkansas Infantry Regiment. With the acquisition of the 6th & 7th Arkansas Second National pattern flag, the Old State House Museums collection is unique containing examples of all three major patterns of flags distributed to units of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.

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Education

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• Civil War
• Old State House Museum
• Old State House
• Museum
• Battle Flags
• conservation
• donation
• textile conservation
• preservation
• Arkansas history