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Why did Civil War Maines wear red stripes? The lore of the Marines wearing "blood stripes" for the 1847 Battle of Chpultepec is a long held Marine tradirion, but is it based on fact?
Marine uniform regulations of 1849 called for solid red leg stripes, but is there any documentations to show a reason red was chosen? Marines still wear scarlet leg stripes on their blue unifroms. Until I see period documentation of the reason red was chosen, I have to put this in the probably just lore column. Show me a source that demonstrates red represented anything in 1849 and I am open to reconsideration.
Marine uniform regulations of 1849 called for solid red leg stripes, but is there any documentations to show a reason red was chosen? Marines still wear scarlet leg stripes on their blue unifroms. Until I see period documentation of the reason red was chosen, I have to put this in the probably just lore column. Show me a source that demonstrates red represented anything in 1849 and I am open to reconsideration.