This hand-stitched, thirty-four-star Union flag, made in 1861, is believed to have been carried by the First Colorado Infantry at the Battle of Glorieta Pass in New Mexico, in 1862. Courtesy History Colorado, WR.1104. It is shown with a Civil War– era sewing kit, ca. 1860s. New Mexico History Museum Collection 2543.45. Photograph by Blair Clark.

This hand-stitched, thirty-four-star Union flag, made in 1861, is believed to have been carried by the First Colorado Infantry at the Battle of Glorieta Pass in New Mexico, in 1862. Courtesy History Colorado, WR.1104. It is shown with a Civil War– era sewing kit, ca. 1860s. New Mexico History Museum Collection 2543.45. Photograph by Blair Clark.