GREEN BAY, Wis. \u2014 A 157-year-old flag from the Civil War is on display at a Green Bay\u00a0museum.<\/p>\n
The flag with a \u201cGreat Star\u201d pattern was hand sewn by a Green Bay woman and is on display at the Neville Public\u00a0Museum, Wisconsin Public Radio reported. The flag is part of the \u201cOur Brown County\u201d display.<\/p>\n
It’s believed to have flown for a rally at the beginning of the Civil War and to have been displayed over what was Fort Howard in Wisconsin until about 1865.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was one of the last flags to fly over Fort Howard,\u201d said Lisa Kain, the\u00a0museum’s curator. \u201cIt’s a rare pattern, significant to that time period so that also makes it so special.\u201d<\/p>\n
The\u00a0museum\u00a0acquired the flag in 1934, Kain said. It was recently rediscovered in the\u00a0museum’s archive, which has more than 300,000 physical items.<\/p>\n
The flag is about 12 feet in length and 8 feet tall. It’s made out of a blend of cotton and linen. The flag red stripes are the most damaged, which may be due to the 19th century dye, Kain said.<\/p>\n
The Neville foundation paid Chicago-based Frank Connet of Textile Restoration Inc. $10,000 to restore the flag.<\/p>\n
\u201cTextiles are so very fragile and so it took a lot of time and effort in making sure that we had the right way to display it,\u201d\u00a0Museum\u00a0Director Beth Lemke said.<\/p>\n
Tulle backing was used to stabilize the flag, which is displayed in a specially-built box with a motion-sensor lighting system meant to stop light damage.<\/p>\n
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