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Re: Civil War Color Guard & General Guides

I don't have much time to post a long response right now, but later this evening I will be writing something that is very close to what has been asked, about the color guard of the 30th Massachusetts. While I have those files out I will add a post here examining the men of that unit (like a small case study), and maybe that will have some useful answers. For now I will just say that most manuals agree that if a battalion is less than 5 companies, it should not carry colors (I know of a few cases where this rule is not followed though). In the case of only 5 companies I would be inclined to guess that the unit would only carry one color...there are quite a number of large regiments (10 companies, 500+ men) that only chose to carry one color anyway. In the case where the regiment you are researching mentions that it had a green flag, it is likely that this was in addition to a national color...so for your case I would guess 2 colors were being carried, though perhaps with a smaller than normal color guard.

Until I can post more later, I will share with you a link http://books.google.com/books?id=mPEnAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=school+of+the+guides&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EuPwTqDoJaTi0QHe_M2qAg&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=school%20of%20the%20guides&f=false This is a manual that I discovered a couple of years ago, but I have not yet had the time I would like to examine it fully and see if it adds much to the known information about color guards...though I think it did contain some useful info about the general guides etc...

Josh Bucchioni

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