Holding this flag, Abel Peck was the first color bearer of the Twenty-Fourth to die at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. Shot through by twenty-three bullets, its staff splintered, the flag was reduced to the tatter seen here. The regiment...
The Twenty-fourth Michigan Infantry was organized at Detroit and mustered into service on August 15, 1862. This regimental flag came to the Twenty-Fourth on 27 April 1864 after the regiment colonel, Henry Morrow, pleaded, "The old one is worn out,...