The 8th Alabama Cavalry flag

[Leigh Cole]

Does anyone have a photo of this flag? I have searched all over the internet and nothing. I have found the 7th (Rucker's) but no 8th...

 

[Klaudly]

Both the two regiments named 8th (Livingston's and Ball's-Hatch's) operated in the Department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana, one in the Armistead's Brigade and one in the Clanton's Brigade. They probably used the Department's battle flag. Such as the flag of the 6th Cavalry, shown below, which was part of the Clanton Brigade: