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    Quote Originally Posted by Elderly View Post
    The Emerald Guard flag WAS ONLY CARRIED BY COMPANY E. The other companies did not carry that flag. The Emerald Guard also was not the color company of the 33rd Virginia. the 33rd carried a Virginia State Flag and the Army of Northern Virginia 2nd Bunting Battle Flag.

    On October 30, 1861 Capt. Charles Blackford wrote "All the Virginia Regiments in striking distance of this place were collected around one of the forts and the State flags were presented to them by Gov. Letcher. I suppose we had some ten thousand troops massed and all the Generals, colonels and staff officers making quite an imposing show. The flags are very handsome and all alike, so every Virginia regiment fights under the same flag" Scollins, Rick, and Gerry Embleton. Flags of the American Civil War 3: State & Volunteer, by Philip Katcher, Osprey, 1994, pp. 33–34.

    Arms and Equipment of the Confederacy. Time-Life Books, 1998, p 250.

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    Hotchkiss, Jed. Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade. By John O. Casler, Ex-Commander Oklahoma Division United Confederate Veterans, Private Company A, 33d Regiment Virginia Infantry, Stonewall Brigade, 1st Division, 2d Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, Gen. Robert E. Lee, Commanding ... Second Edition, Revised, Corrected and Improved by Maj. Jed Hotchkiss ... Girard, Kansas, Appeal Publishing Company, 1906, by John Overton Casler, Continental Book Co., 1951, p. 56.
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    I found no evidence to overthrow the strong possibility that the 33rd Virginia and especially the 8th Alabama (whose depot-issued regimental colors had been captured a month or two prior) carried their Irish colors into battle.

    The appropriate battle flag for most of the Confederate regiments in this game is the Second Issue and the 33rd Virginia should also spawn with one of these (it doesn't, yet).
    The source is from October of 1861, so of course they'd would have their newly issued flag at that time. This game is set in September of 1862 about 11 months after they got their flag issued to them even though the flag you posted is from 1863. Bradley stated they're adding the second issue flag soon, so I personally don't understand what the issue is. :P
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    The 8th Alabama colors were captured not the 33rd's. The issue is that a company flag is being passed off as a regimental flag when this is being touted as historically accurate. Yes the flag looks cool but this is not what the 33rd fought under and should not be passed off as such.

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    In honor of Thanksgiving, I am updating the "Stars and Bars" side of the "other" Emerald Guard flag, that belonging to the 8th Alabama Infantry. I've never been very happy with the depiction of George Washington on the flag, and so I have painted the Virginian from scratch, based on a popular sculpture of the period, and wreathed in a style common to many flags of the early war period.

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    Cobb's Infantry Battalion flags:

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    Troup's Artillery flag:

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    6th Georgia Infantry Regiment

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    The above flag is a work in progress.

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    Company A 1st Maryland Infantry Regiment C.S.A.

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    1st Kentucky Infantry Regiment C.S.A "Alexander Guards"

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    10th Texas Cavalry Regiment

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    10th Texas Cavalry Regiment Company "E".

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    7th Tennessee Infantry Regiment "Lebanon Greys".

    Note: This flag was originally white in color.

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    Detail of the state seal.

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    Tyler's Guards 1864.

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    Chesapeake Artillery. (This flag flew during the Maryland Campaign.)

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    Marion Light Artillery.

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    2nd Florida Infantry, Company "G," ‘St. John’s Greys.
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    Flag of the Yadkin Grey Eagles

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    A reproduction based off the original flag of the "Yadkin Grey Eagles" 11th North Carolina Infantry and Co. A, 1st Battalion North Carolina Sharpshooters.

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    Cabinet card of Major Reuben E. Wilson and the flag of the Yadkin Gray Eagles, 11th North Carolina Infantry and Co. A, 1st Battalion North Carolina Sharpshooters!

    The Yadkin Gray Eagles were the first company raised in Yadkin County, North Carolina. Upon their arrival in Virginia, the company was mustered into Confederate service as Company B, 11th Regiment North Carolina Volunteers, later the 21st Regiment North Carolina State Troops.



    At the reorganization of the Confederate army at Manassass in February 1862, Companies B and E were detatched from the regiment and redesignated Companies A and B, 1st Battalion North Carolina Sharpshooters.Lt. Reuben E. Wilson of Company B was promoted to Captain on the company. When the battalion commander was promoted to regimental command, Wilson was promoted to major and given command of the battalion.



    This battalion was an active participant in nearly every battle fought by the Army of Northern Virginia, from Manassas to Appomattox, and because of what was called their "peculiar and efficient drill", engaged in many skirmishes in which the main army did not participate.



    The above flag was presented to the Yadkin Gray Eagles upon their departure for Virginia. It was made from the silk dresses of the young ladies of the county and presented to the company by Miss Lou Glen, later Mrs. Joseph Williams. The captain, in receiving it on behalf of the company, closed his speach with these words:



    "When this cruel war is over, Miss Lou,

    This flag untarnished shall be returned to you."



    This is perhaps the only Confederate company flag that was carried through twenty-six battles, from Manassas to Appomattox, through the war and returned "untarnished," to its donors. In 1898, the daughter of Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Robert Daniels, was the guardian of the flag. THe flag was later presented to the state of North Carolina.



    On August 9, 1862, in a charge against the enemy near Warrenton, Va., Major Wilson was severly wounded when a minie ball broke both bones of the right forearm. At the same time, his left leg was shattered below the knee ba a grape-shot, which disabled him for several months. On April 2, 1865, in a charge at Petersburg, he was again wounded, his left leg cut off by a shell. He was hospitalized, paroled on April 21, rearrested, and taken to Libby Prison, where he remained until December 20, 1865.



    When life returned to normal, Major Wilson ran a successful mercantile business in Augusta, Georgia.



    This photograph is a post-war picture of Major WIlson flanked by the flag of his company, the Yadkin Gray Eagles.



    This information came from "The Flags of CIvil War North Carolina" by Glenn Dedmondt and the "Confederate Veteran" magazine.

    https://www.yadkinripple.com/news/59...g-conservation

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