color-company

Updated: May 7, 2025

When the third fell, a Lieutenant in the color-company of the same regiment, who had not many months before deserted the mock combats of the stage for the sanguinary fights of actual warfare, concluded to try his success at carrying the dangerous bunting. He seized the staff and held it, himself untouched, for several minutes, while bullets were actually riddling the flag.

Henry Morford - Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862