Confederate Battle Flags.

[PartywithArty]

very nice!!! Those flags bring a feeling of great pride over me,god bless the men who fought so braveley under those banners.

 

[Georgia Sixth]

Flags was misspelled. No "l".

I kinda liked the original title. Promised a very interesting thread....Liberace's Legion...Boy George, the boy drummer of Shiloh....and George McClellan, the Little Napolitano.

 

[jessgettysburg1863]

very nice!!! Those flags bring a feeling of great pride over me,god bless the men who fought so braveley under those banners.

Well said mate, they are all heroes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ole]

I kinda liked the original title. Promised a very interesting thread....Liberace's Legion...Boy George, the boy drummer of Shiloh....and George McClellan, the Little Napolitano.

Napoleon was Corsican. I won't tell any Napolitano you said that. Or did you think North v. South was the only regional conflict? Internicene vendettas still exist. All over the world. Long past the time when anyone alive today remembers why.

 

[DixieRifles]

Why doesn't the flag of the 6th Alabama have any "Battle Honors" on it?​

I believe that was left up to the individual soldiers in the unit to do that if they wished

A flag expert I heard speak at an SCV, said that the battle honors were not added in the field. They were only added to the flag when a new one was made to replace the tattered one. So, either that flag was the original issue that was captured or retired OR their flag was never replaced such that battle honors were added.

Here is a WINDOWs trick you can try with these flag photos. I have not done it in a long time but it is cool. You remember how WINDOWS can display a photo image or a Text phrase as a screen saver?? It has options to let the image/text pan across the screen or float around. Well, one option is to let the text/image wave.

So pick a nice photo of a flag--not too large and trim away the white edges. Open the Windows screen saver and select the Flag image as your screen saver. Then select the option to make it Wave.
Now the screen saver will pull up the Flag photo on a black screen and it will wave as if in a breeze. I have not done this in years but see if you can still do this.
I used to do this with a battle flag of a Florida regiment which was not the typical square flag but was long and looked cool when it waved.

 

[bobs0651]

good WINDOWS tip dixie rifles thanks for sharing brother

 

[Miles Krisman]

Actually, the regiment had to apply through the chain of command all the way to the war department, for approval to include battle honors on their flag.

The reason I asked the question, is because the 6th Alabama was heavily involved in most actions of the eastern theater. As such, their flag did have battle honors on it, but the picture shown did not. Was it a post-war replica of the basic battle flag? Or was it perhaps an early flag (1861) prior to the regiment seeing combat?

 

[Miles Krisman]

Steve,

Thanks for the response. I guess I was posting at the same time as you, so my posting above appears out of sequence. I would think you are right on with your explaination.