Cavalry Guidon Flag – 1861

A Calvary Guidon flag of the Civil War contained 13 stripes, alternating red and white, and a rectangular union of light blue with thirty-four five-pointed gold stars.

During the Civil War a special version of the United States flag – with swallowtail and stars of gold instead of white—was carried by the cavalry. General Custer and others used the flag in succeeding decades in the West.

The History of Our American Flag

Historical American Flags