I get the impression that the standard operating procedure was for the company commanded by the senior captain to be posted on the left of the regimental line, for the company commanded by the second senior officer to be posted on the right, and for the company commanded by the third senior officer to be posted in the center. This would make sense from a command and control standpoint, to have the senior officers spread along the line. If this was the case, then the color company would have changed from time to time, as the relative seniority of the officers changed.

I know that this is the way that the Hampton Legion Infantry went into action at 1 Manassas. Has anyone seen anything relative to this?