"The World Turned Upside Down – 6th Maryland Continentals" Topic

Not exactly a totally new addition to the ranks of my World Turned Upside Down AWI project, but in my recent post I look at the 6th Maryland Regiment, part of the 1st Maryland Brigade at Brandywine and explain how my use of sabot basing allows my previously created 3rd New York Continental Regiment from the Northern Department to assume the guise of this key component of the Central and later Southern Departments.

In addition I have outlined my plans to recreate the 1st and 2nd Maryland Brigades for the 1777 campaign with other units to be featured in upcoming posts.

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JJ

Very nicely done!

Jim

Very handsome!
I am curious as to what rules you use for your AWI games? I have an AWI project in the wings.

Great looking figures.

Nicely done. I particularly like how the uniforms are not a perfect match.
But please try something besides the Betsy Ross flag. It was NOT carried in the field.

Hi Chaps,
Thanks for your comments.

bobpruster: The rules I am planning to use are Rise & Fight Again from Stand to Games and Carnage & Glory II, computer moderated rules from Nigel Marsh. The options provide a paper based set and computer moderated set both very much focussed on fatigue levels as a concept, something I very much enjoy incorporated into my tabletop wargaming.

I ran a warm-up game of R&FA at the DWG back in June this year.
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JtOFM: I think I have seen you make reference to the Betsy Ross flag not being used in another post and I would love to know the reference for your comment.

I have spent a fair bit of time reading and gathering as much source material on American flags as is available and I have other folks referenced claiming that this or similar design's were first used at Brandywine by some units and I know Edward Richardson's esteemed tome ‘Standards & Colours of the American Revolution – 1982 only makes reference to Ross providing such flags for the Pennsylvania Navy, but of course that doesn't necessarily mean that the design wasn't copied out to the army.

Cheers
JJ

I have too many regiments to change out the flags. None of my newer regiments have them. But then the question is what to use instead? I used a few homemade looking flags with slogans but they seem to be more appropriate for militia. So I started using Gostelowe Flags. The whole Betsy Ross story is fake news. Just family lore passed down.

The popular story that Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag is a 19th-century myth created by her family, not an event supported by Revolutionary-era evidence. The claim first appeared in 1870 when her grandson said she met with George Washington in June 1776 to design a flag with five-pointed stars; however, Washington was documented elsewhere at that time, and no records from 1776–77 mention Ross in connection with the national flag. Surviving evidence instead points to Congress's 1777 Flag Resolution and to Francis Hopkinson as the only person who actually billed Congress for designing the flag. While Ross was a real upholsterer who produced flags for Pennsylvania, there is no historical proof she created the first Stars and Stripes. Hopkinson's flag may have been at Brandywine but I have no idea what it looked like.

References:

Canby, William J. The History of the Flag of the United States, 1870.

Journals of the Continental Congress, June 1777.

Library of Congress, "The Betsy Ross Flag: An American Myth."

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, "Who Designed the First U.S. Flag?"