31397 - Confederate Flagbearer, 1st Texas, First Pattern Wool Bunting Flag, Texas Brigade John Jenkins Drums Along The Mohawk and by the 1820-30s American

and by the 1820-30s American manufacturers had virtually abandoned the use of boxwood

Josephine meanwhile is gracefully attired in a pale blue and delicately embroidered ‘classical-styled’ dress complete with a wine velvet ‘manteau’ edged with ermine and decorated with gold

As such it doesn't really fit into any of our normal ranges

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The South was at a relative disadvantage to the North for deployment of artillery

31397 - Confederate Flagbearer, 1st Texas, First Pattern Wool Bunting Flag, Texas Brigade John Jenkins Drums Along The Mohawk and by the 1820-30s AmericanThe 1st Texas Regiment carried a factory made battle flag in addition to their unique Wigfall pattern Lone Star flag made of silk. This smaller second flag was of a design utilizing the St. Andrews cross with stars representing the states of the Confederacy. It was made from wool bunting captured from the Federal navy and issued to only two or three brigades in the Army of Northern Virginia in the spring and summer of 1862. This flag was carried into