Flag : Regimental Colors.

This blue flag served as the regimental colors of the 96th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The United States arms is painted in the flag's center. The arms likely consisted of a bald eagle looking to the right (or fly side) and holding an olive branch in its right talon and a bundle of arrows in its left talon. The eagle likely held a scroll in its beak featuring the motto "E PLURIBUS UNUM". A banner is positioned below the arms. Due to deterioration most of the banner and the arms are no longer intact. Thirty-two gold stars are still intact in a double-arc pattern above the arms (due to deterioration some stars have been lost). The flag has gold fringe on its top, right, and bottom sides