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| No. 15 - Baltimore City Guard Battalion Color This is the battalion color of the Baltimore City Guard, a component of the pre-Civil War Fifty-Third Regiment, Maryland Militia. Withdrawing from that unit in 1858, the Guard became an independent organization and is said to have maintained its identity as a home guard battalion during the war. The blue color bears on its obverse the words, "Presented to Battalion Baltimore City Guard by the Ladies of Baltimore." The legend is encircled by a belt of knighthood carrying the motto; "Non solum nobis sed pro patria." (Not for self, but for country). Beneath the belt are the words, "Organized 1830. Incorporated Feby. 1858." The reverse bears a painting of the Battle Monument in Baltimore in a stylized leaf frame. Little has been discovered about the Civil War service of the Baltimore City Guard. It may have been a component of the Eleventh Regiment, Infantry, when in July 1864, that unit was rushed to the Frederick area in an effort to stem the Confederate advance into Maryland led by General Jubal Early. If such was the case, this color may have served as the regimental standard of the Eleventh, a 100-day unit that had been organized only about two weeks earlier. No. 16 - Thirteenth Regiment, Infantry, Md. Volunteers National Flag1 This is the national flag of the Thirteenth Regiment, Infantry, Maryland Volunteers, organized early in 1865 for guard duty in West Virginia. Bearing thirty-four stars, it possibly had been carried previously by the First Regiment, Potomae Home Brigade, Infantry, which had been disbanded in 1864 and whose veterans, with some recruits, formed the Thirteenth Regiment. The First Regiment, Potomac Home Brigade, was in the Harpers Ferry Garrison that surrendered to "Stonewall" Jackson in 1862. After being exchanged, it fought at Gettysburg and at Monocacy. No. 17-A • The Purnell Legion, Maryland Volunteers Regimental Color No. 17-B - The Purnell Legion, Maryland Volunteers National Flag Originally containing nine companies of infantry, two of cavalry, and two batteries of light artillery, the Purnell Legion was reorganized in February, 1862, when the units representing the different branches of the service were separ- — 17 — |