battle-flags

I've always loved reading about the Civil War, both in the sense of serious history, because the dichotomy Lance writes about here is really fascinating to me, and then there's the magpie part of me that loves the colorful uniforms and battle-flags.

Picketts charges 2009

A gust of wind laid the torches low and sent the tattered battle-flags flapping on the bare stone walls.

THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010

We captured five pieces of artillery and nine battle-flags.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Our success was unqualified; we had overthrown Pickett, taken six guns, thirteen battle-flags, and nearly six thousand prisoners.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

They were followed across the plain by the cavalry, and lost about two hundred and fifty prisoners and two battle-flags.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

As I was passing through Newtown, I heard cannonading from the direction of Front Royal, and on reaching Winchester, Merritt's couriers brought me word that he had been attacked at the crossing of the Shenandoah by Kershaw's division of Anderson's corps and two brigades of Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry, but that the attack had been handsomely repulsed, with a capture of two battle-flags and three hundred prisoners.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

The direct result of the battle was the recapture of all the artillery, transportation, and camp equipage we had lost, and in addition twenty-four pieces of the enemy's artillery, twelve hundred prisoners, and a number of battle-flags.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Till the war-drum throbb™d no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd

World Government Lu, Catherine 2006

Federals who saw them coming to the Court House had to look a second time to be sure what it was they beheld: "The regimental battle-flags . . . crowded so thick, by thinning out of men, that the whole column seemed crowned with red."

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

Federals who saw them coming to the Court House had to look a second time to be sure what it was they beheld: "The regimental battle-flags . . . crowded so thick, by thinning out of men, that the whole column seemed crowned with red."

LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001