Lot 774
A Silk Battle Flag of Company G of the National Guard Regiment of New Orleans (active 1854-1860), c. 1857, the canton with a gold embroidered circle of twenty-eight stars and "Company G National Guard", 5 ft. 3 in. x 7 ft. 5 in., with the original gold bullion flag pole tassels, a framed pastel portrait of Captain John B.G. Kennedy, and original Kennedy documents and copies of others. E3000/5000 Provenance: This flag belonged to Captain John B.G. Kennedy (d. 1870), the Commander of this pre-Civil War militia company. Kennedy, a New Orleans resident and veteran of the Mexican War later served the Confederacy as Colonel of the 5th Louisiana Battalion (a unit composed of men from Orleans Parish) and commanded at the siege of New Madrid and Island Number 10 in Spring 1862. The unit was re-designated the 21st Louisiana Regiment (Kennedy's) and disbanded in 1862. Kennedy then served in the Confederate Quartermaster Department until 1865 and died in 1870. Antebellum military flags from New Orleans are exceedingly rare, and this impressive example ranks among the finest.
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