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Exhibition History First Presidio Exhibit (ZFC0126) 19-STAR UNITED STATES EXCLUSIONARY FLAG Date: 1861 Medium: Wool bunting and cotton stars; machine- stitched with hand-stitched stars Comment: Because this flag is machine-sewn it can date to no earlier than 1850, although the 19 stars in its union would lead one to think it was made in honor of the admission of Indiana to the Union in 1816. Its star pattern 14 stars encircling a central one, with an added star in each corner of the canton was a popular design for the Stars and Stripes from the Mexican War through the Civil War. It is suspected, therefore, that this is an exclusionary flag, made in the North sometime between January 1861 (when Kansas was admitted to the Union as the thirty-fourth state) and the February 1861 establishment of the Confederate States of America. Although the states that formed the Confederacy considered themselves entirely free of the Union upon secession, Abraham Lincolns administration refused throughout the Civil War to recognize the legitimacy of their putative withdrawal from the United States. While that was the official position of the government, contemporary evidence indicates that a few Northerners did make flags that excluded the seceded slave states. Provenance: Acquired by the Zaricor Flag Collection (ZFC0126) in 1996 from the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House Collection of Baltimore, MD. Second Presidio Exhibit, 2003 GALLERY III (ZFC0126) 19-Star United States Exclusionary Flag Date: 1861 Medium: Wool bunting and cotton stars; machine-stitched with hand-stitched stars Comment: Because this flag is machine-sewn it can date to no earlier than 1850, although the 19 stars in its union would lead one to think it was made in honor of the admission of Indiana to the Union in 1816. Its star pattern14 stars encircling a central one, with an added star in each corner of the canton was a popular design for the Stars and Stripes from the Mexican War through the Civil War. It is suspected, therefore, that this is an exclusionary flag, made in the North sometime between January 1861 (when Kansas was admitted to the Union as the thirty-fourth state) and the February 1861 establishment of the Confederate States of America. Although the states that formed the Confederacy considered themselves entirely free of the Union upon secession, Abraham Lincolns administration refused throughout the Civil War to recognize the legitimacy of their putative withdrawal from the United States. While that was the official position of the government, contemporary evidence indicates that a few Northerners did make flags that excluded the seceded slave states. Provenance: Acquired by the Zaricor Flag Collection (ZFC0126) in 1996 from the Star-Spangled Banner Flag House Collection of Baltimore, MD.

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Publication Copy	Publication History: Madaus, Howard M., Dr, Whitney Smith, The American Flag: Two Centuries of Concord and Conflict. Santa Cruz: VZ Publications, 2006, p. 63. 19-Star United States Exclusionary Flag Because this flag is machine-sewn it can date to no earlier than 1850, although the 19 stars in its union would lead one to think it was made in honor of the admission of Indiana to the Union in 1816. Its star pattern 14 stars encircling a central one, with an added star in each corner of the cantonwas a popular design for the Stars & Stripes from the Mexican War through the Civil War. It is suspected, therefore, that this is an exclusionary flag, made in the North sometime between January 1861when Kansas was admitted to the Union as the thirty-fourth stateand the February 1861 establishment of the Confederate States of America. Although the states that formed the Confederacy considered themselves entirely free of the Union upon secession, Abraham Lincolns administration refused throughout the Civil War to recognize the legitimacy of their putative withdrawal from the United States. While that was the official position of the government, contemporary evidence indicates that a few Northerners did make flags that excluded the seceded slave states.
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