Civil War The Color Bearer Tradition

Civil War The Color Bearer Tradition The War Between the States was the heyday of American battleflags and their bearers. With unusualhistorical accuracy, many stirring battle paintings show the colors and their intrepid bearers in the forefront of the fray or as a rallying point in a retreat. The colors of a Civil War regiment embodied its honor, and the men chosen to bear them made up an elite. Tall, muscular men were preferred, because …

…Letters, 1854-1920, MSS in the South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, SC (which collection also includes letters of Edward McCrady, Jr., WilliamG. Whilden, Mrs. Charles Hard and Rose McKelvin respecting the battleflag of Gregg's 1st South Carolina and a typescript of Ella Hard's October23, 1969 letter to the Director of Archives, Columbia, SC, respecting her great uncle). 12. [Ellen Whilden,] Life of Maumer Juno of Charleston, S.C., A Sketch of Juno (Waller) Seymour (Atlanta, GA: Foote & Davies, 1892).