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![[flag]](../images/u/us^gen-sherm.jpg)
image located by William Garrison, 23 August 2026
Source:
https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/decoding-shermans-flag-and-conserving-historic-treasure
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For those interested in the conservation of flags, the following opening
paragraphs will entice you to read a more extensive article relating to the
preservation of a flag ordered on Dec. 15, 1880 by U.S. Gen. Sherman, who was a
famous Union general during the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865). His flag underwent a
restoration project (c. 2015) at the "National Museum of American History" in
Washington, DC.
"In our textile conservation lab, the final pieces of a
million piece jigsaw puzzle have just been put into place. The "puzzle" in
question is a 135-year-old silk flag commissioned by General William T. Sherman,
of Civil War fame, that had deteriorated into thousands of fragments. Textile
conservator Suzanne Thomassen-Krauss and her intern Kayla Silvia were up to the
challenge. Sherman's flag never saw a battlefield. Instead, it waved over
military ceremonies as a symbol of unity and peace. Commissioned in 1880 by
William Tecumseh Sherman, General of the U.S. Army after the Civil War, it
represented reconciliation between states. "
Full article at
https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/decoding-shermans-flag-and-conserving-historic-treasure
William Garrison, 23 August 2026
![[flag]](../images/u/us^gen-sherm_des.jpg)
image located by William Garrison, 23 August 2026
Source:
https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/decoding-shermans-flag-and-conserving-historic-treasure
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