Borderruffian
1st Lieutenant
- Joined
- Aug 4, 2007
- Location
- Marshfield Missouri
In mid-October, 1861, four months after the Guard had taken the field, a Mrs. S. A. Brett of Hernando, Mississippi presented a flag to the First Division of the Guard. Lieutenant Colonel Matthew H. Moore, the division quartermaster, then situated in Memphis, Tennessee seeking supplies, wrote Mrs. Brett a letter of appreciation, complimenting her painting of the state coat of arms as an example of the “finest style of the art”. The ladies of the St. Agnes Academy, presumably in Memphis, also presented Moore a “magnificent flag with the coat of arms of Missouri richly embroidered upon a field three feet square,” while the wife of Captain John Decker, a Guardsman from St. Louis living in Memphis, made several banners for the Division.[vi] Lastly, Moore acknowledged the “making of three banners” by C. E. W. Miller and Isadora Miller, both from the vicinity of Oxford, Mississippi. He provided no description of those flags, but since he had previously volunteered to furnish proper materials and instructions to anyone willing to make flags for the Division, it seems very likely that these flags probably reflected the design and color prescribed in General Order No. 8.[vii]
Oddly enough, there is evidence that the headquarters flag of Major General Sterling Price, overall commander of the Guard, did not comply with General Order No. 8. Once observed by Private Ephraim McD. Anderson, a Third Division soldier, he later penned the following description of the flag:
It is emblematic of our coat of arms, and exhibits a part of the blazonry, though the escutcheon, with the bear on each side, rampant and quadrant, in heraldic terms, is not represented, and perhaps would not be appropriate, yet the ascending star, upon the azure ground, is there, and something else, which is not distinctly visible.”[viii]
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Audrain County Company Flag, 2nd Division
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Company Flag of the Saline Guards, 6th Division
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Flag of 1st Infantry Battalion, 7th Division
Callaway County (Kingdom of Callaway) Flag
Sterling Price Flag
More here:http://mmcwrt.missouri.org/
http://www.rulen.com/moflag/
Oddly enough, there is evidence that the headquarters flag of Major General Sterling Price, overall commander of the Guard, did not comply with General Order No. 8. Once observed by Private Ephraim McD. Anderson, a Third Division soldier, he later penned the following description of the flag:
It is emblematic of our coat of arms, and exhibits a part of the blazonry, though the escutcheon, with the bear on each side, rampant and quadrant, in heraldic terms, is not represented, and perhaps would not be appropriate, yet the ascending star, upon the azure ground, is there, and something else, which is not distinctly visible.”[viii]
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Audrain County Company Flag, 2nd Division
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Company Flag of the Saline Guards, 6th Division
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Flag of 1st Infantry Battalion, 7th Division
Callaway County (Kingdom of Callaway) Flag
Sterling Price Flag
More here:http://mmcwrt.missouri.org/
http://www.rulen.com/moflag/