Marion,
I recently found both flags belonging to my Dad's unit. They ended up in private hands like this one did. I would like to know exactly how that happened.
I had a friend say that most of the flags were turned in and stored at the headquarters of the Army Quartermasters or the QM Museum at Fort Lee, VA.
The story of the flag of my Dad's unit was that a soldier was disembarking off the troop ship. They had to unload everything from the ship into a warehouse. They were piling up all everything; some to be disposed of later---but that apparently never happened. There were even piles of unclaimed captured weapons. There on the floor was the flag for his artillery battalion.
I wonder if he obtained before the end of the war because the flag looked frazzled and was replaced? Can you ask him about this?
Steve