"ACW Command Stands" Topic
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Syr Hobbs Wargames | 26 Mar 2014 8:34 p.m. PST |
Command stands for dismounted Union cavalry. Regimental commanders and Guidon Bearer, etc. would they be mounted or on foot? Each regiment carry the traditional cavalry flag with the stars and bars? Oh and I get the red/white guidon with numbers for divisions??? . . . . what are the guidon's with letters? Maybe the question should be, what should dismounted union cavalry cammnd stands look like? thanks Duane |
Happy Little Trees | 26 Mar 2014 9:25 p.m. PST |
The letters are for the cavalry troops (company) e.g. 'F' Troop. |
Trajanus | 27 Mar 2014 3:20 a.m. PST |
I guess it would depend on the circumstances but for the most part I would go with mounted. The Regimental commander had to see and be seen. Even in Infantry Regiments they were supposed to be mounted – not saying they were mind you. All the more important in the Cavalry where he had to choose when the point the Regiment would remount and wouldn't want to be scrambling around to do so himself. It would have been a bit embarrassing to find yourself on foot if your horse holder lost your mount! Cavalry regiments carried only the one flag – the Regimental color (not the Stars and Stripes) in the case of the Union and Battle Flag in the Confederacy. |
ScottWashburn | 27 Mar 2014 5:08 a.m. PST |
I think a lot would depend on the circumstances and the stage of the war. In early war they'd probably remain mounted since that was the soldierly thing to do. As they gained experience they would know when it made sense to dismount and when it made sense to stay mounted. I'd think that if possible they would remain mounted because it would give the commander greater mobility and a higher vantage point (amazing how much more you can see from atop a horse). But if the combat was hot and close they'd have the sense to dismount. As I recall, even Jeb Stuart was dismounted when he was killed at Yellow Tavern. |
vtsaogames | 27 Mar 2014 6:19 a.m. PST |
It would have been a bit embarrassing to find yourself on foot if your horse holder lost your mount! Recently read of a Confederate cavalry brigadier captured in fighting around Little Rock when his horse spooked while he was trying to remount. |
Syr Hobbs Wargames | 27 Mar 2014 7:59 p.m. PST |
So what was the regimental color? When I mentioned stars and stripes I really had not other way to describe this flag.
Is this the regimental colors? If so, what makes each flag unique they all look the same? or maybe they didn't? thanks again Duane |
Trajanus | 28 Mar 2014 10:53 a.m. PST |
No, the Regimental colors were mostly dark blue with US eagles or some kind of state badge in the center the same as in the Infantry where they carried one of them along with the Stars and Stripes. Check this site and scroll right down. Around half way down the page there'e a whole bunch of original ones! link |
5thZouave | 04 Apr 2014 11:52 a.m. PST |
Cavarly had one blue standard per regt. looks just like the infantry one except size. Each company/troop carried guidons like the one shown in late war post 1862. Pre 62 was the red/white with the company letter. According to the Army regulations: "Each regiment shall have a silken standard, and each company a silken guidon. The standard to bear the arms of the United States, embroidered in silk, on a blue ground, with the number and name of the regiment, in scroll underneath the eagle. The flag of the standard to be two feet five inches wide, and two feet three inches on the lance, and to be edged with yellow silk fringe. The flag of the guidon is swallow-tailed, three feet five inches from the lance to the end of the swallow-tail; fifteen inches to the fork of the swallow-tail, and two feet three inches on the lance. To be half red and half white, dividing at the fork, the red above. On the red the letters U. S. in white; and on the white, the letter of the company in red. The lance of the standards and guidons to be nine feet long, including spear and ferrule." On January 18, 1862 General Order #4: "Under instructions from the Secretary of War, dated January 7, 1862, guidons and camp colors for the Army will be made like the United States flag, with stars and stripes." |
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