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| flag (approximately 9 by 12 feet) precludes the possibility that it could have been carried on a staff by a color-bearer, and its thirty-eight stars place it in the 1877 to 1890 period. Little doubt exists that this was an official flag of the Old Defenders' Association, but in all probability it was not the original. It was presented to the State October 19, 1907, by the Society of the War of 1812. No. 3 - Union Volunteers of Baltimore Company Color - War of 1812 (Tradition) The history of this badly faded and tattered color is uncertain. For years it has been regarded as the company color of the Union Volunteers, a unit that saw action during the War of 1812 at North Point in September, 1814, as a component of the Fifth Regiment, Maryland Militia. However, its swallowtail shape and its basic stars and stripes design with thirty-four stars in the canton raises the possibility that it may have been a cavalry or light artillery guidon of the Civil War period. This possibility is heightened by the fact that it was presented to the State, November 21, 1906, by Wilson Post No. 1, Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans of the Civil War. _8 — |