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John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, chapter 14 (search)
rms of the Fifth Corps badge are often figured as concave, whereas those of a Maltese cross are straight. This is believed to be a deviation from the original in the minds of many veterans who wore them, and they are changed accordingly in the color-plate. The Sixth Corps wore a St. Andrew's cross till 1864, when it changed to the Greek cross figured in the plate. That this circular of Hooker's was not intended to be a dead letter was shown in an order issued from Fal mouth, Va., May 12, 1863, in which St. Andrew's cross. he says:-- The badges worn by the troops when lost or torn off must be immediately replaced. And then, after designating the only troops that are without badges, he adds:-- Provost-marshals will arrest as stragglers all other troops found without badges, and return them to their commands under guard. There was a badge worn by the artillery brigade of the Third Corps, which, so far as I know, had no counterpart in other corps. I think it was n
John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, chapter 19 (search)
division it is. The men's caps tell the story, but the flags are equally plain-spoken. This flag is the first division color. It is rectangular in shape. The corps emblem is red in a white field; the second has the emblem white in a blue field; the third has the emblem blue in a white field. The divisions had the lead of the corps on the march by turns, changing each day. But here comes another headquarters. The color-bearer carries a triangular flag. That is a brigade flag. May 12, 1863, General Hooker issued an order prescribing division flags of the pattern I have described, and also designated what the brigade flags should be. They were to be, first of all, triangular in shape; the brigades of the first division should bear the corps symbol in red in the centre of a white field, but, to distinguish them, the first brigade should have no other mark; the second should have a blue stripe next the staff, and the third a blue border four and one-half inches wide around the