Flag : National Colors.

This flag served as the national colors of the 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The flag has twenty-seven stars still intact on a blue canton (due to deterioration some stars have been lost). The stars are arranged in a rectilinear pattern. The flag's thirteen alternating red and white stripes are pieced. Due to deterioration, only portions of eleven of the flag's thirteen stripes remain intact. Gold text in the flag's middle red stripe reads: "49TH ... ". Some of the flag's text is no longer legible or intact due to deterioration