"Wilder's brigade colours" Topic
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| maciek72 | 21 Dec 2020 2:35 a.m. PST |
Regiments in Wilder's brigade were coposed of infantry regiments, and thus were given odinary, big infantry flags. in.gov/iwm/2399.htm I also learned thet at least some of regiments used cvalry like guidons: link Do we have any source informations (not speculations) about which flags do they unfurled while fighting on foot ? |
| Cleburne1863 | 21 Dec 2020 6:40 a.m. PST |
According to Civil War Flags of Tennessee by Stephen Douglas Cox, this is a company guidon. So, yes, they still would have used and unfurled the larger infantry colors while fighting on foot. |
| maciek72 | 21 Dec 2020 7:38 a.m. PST |
Oh ! I overlooked this information.
SO I do them with large colours :-) |
Frederick  | 21 Dec 2020 8:34 a.m. PST |
Yep – and them gosh-darned Yankee rifle you load on Sunday and shoot all week! |
| donlowry | 22 Dec 2020 4:14 p.m. PST |
After Chickamauga, Wilder's brigade was assigned to the Cavalry Corps, which might have been what led it to using cavalry guidons. (Before that it had been in the 14th Corps.) |
ScottWashburn  | 23 Dec 2020 11:43 a.m. PST |
It should be noted that infantry regiments did carry guidons, but they were usually rectangular of square rather than the swallow-tail style used by the cavalry. |
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completes a Confederate river ironclad.