CSA Flag query

[observator]

the CS Flag on the right-can it be identified?

File:Price Raid (cropped).jpg - Wikimedia Commons

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[scooter748driver]

I'm not sure but maybe the Van Dorn battle flag? (4th Missouri Infantry)

 

[observator]

IT DOES LOOK CLOSE

4th Missouri Regimental flag,

The 4th Missouri carried this flag which was presented to them in April of 1862 in Springfield, Missouri. The 4th fought for Cockrell’s Brigade, French’s Division alongside the: 1st, …

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[Lampasas Bill]

Interesting flag. General Marmaduke's headquarters flag was blue with a crescent and a cross.

Major General John S. Marmaduke's Headquarters Flag. | Civil War Potpourri

At the Missouri State Museum (State Capitol).

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[Rhea Cole]

I don't recognize that particular flag, that despite having seen untold numbers of Confederate battle flags. Despite common usage, "THE Confederate Battle Flag" does not exist.

Each of the 29 CSA army commanders was authorized to create his own battle flag. Braxton Bragg, commander of the Army of Tennessee, chose not to. At the Battle of Stones River, there were at least six Confederate battle flags.

Beauregard & Johnston's mania for a standardized "pants suspender flag" never came across the Mississippi into the land of "Kirby Smith-dom."

As has been illustrated above, Kirby Smith's battle flags consisted of various combinations of gold stars on a red field.

The flag at the head of this thread has all the Kirby Smith-dom's design elements, stars, crescent moons & crosses on a red field.

There are I don't know how many iterations of the Kirby Smith battle flag. As I said, this one doesn't ring a bell. There may never have been another one made. Who knows?

Klaudly knows, that's who!

 

[Klaudly]

18th Arkansas Cavalry Battalion (ex 2nd Slemons' Cavalry Regiment)

 

[observator]

18th Arkansas Cavalry...looks pretty close.....

 

[GwilymT]

18th Arkansas Cavalry Battalion (ex 2nd Slemons' Cavalry Regiment)

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This looks close.

 

[Rhea Cole]

18th Arkansas Cavalry Battalion (ex 2nd Slemons' Cavalry Regiment)

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Good find!

 

[Klaudly]

From This Book:

 

[Stryker65]

Was the flag of Slemons' 2nd Arkansas Cavalry the same? It would be that, not the 18th Battalion, during the raid.

 

[Klaudly]

Personally, I believe that when the 2nd Regiment was reduced to a battalion they did not change flag