League Of Augsburg - Fighting Talk

28th Massachsetts regiment and state flag, these and more can be downloaded
free of charge from the website on a 15mm and 25mm A4 sheet, each sheet
has 10 flags with battles honours attached.





http://grimsbywargamessociety.webs.com/

More great stuff from you Malc, I don't know where you find the time.
Cheers
Dave

Flaggs looking real great

Funny thing that this Regiment puts lost battles on the Flags "
Bull Run? Fredericksburg?

was told the moto was wrong as well...but its right as it reads "Who never retreated from the clash of spears" rather than swords as with other flags

Friedrich August I. wrote:Flaggs looking real great

Funny thing that this Regiment puts lost battles on the Flags "
Bull Run? Fredericksburg?

here is another with losted battles, i got this off the original flag and copied the battles in the correct places as the real one...how about that for research...some of the writting i could not read so i had to read the history of this regiment to the letters that was on the battle flag ... yep it all fits...gob smacked !

the link http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/2012Civil ... tters.html

Crazy Irish I would say

But you are right, there are realy printing lost battles on their flag so I take it they are mentioning battles in which they fought not the won.

Think it is just a regiment ego moment of being at the battle, the more i look into the civil war flags the more i get confused with them, one New Jersey regiment was in the irish brigade and was presented with a green flag after a battle which was refused with insult within the regiment as nobody was irish, seen the regiment a number of times around on forum with the green irish flag and i am pretty sure a couple of websites sell the irish flag, but it was passed onto another regiment from what i read and was never carried, i guess history just throws me off sometimes and i wonder if i am wrong or right..lol...fun doing it though but this civil war on flags is really confusing at times.

Battle honours were still won by individual units who performed well in a particular battle. Even if the battle was lost .

j1mwallace wrote:Battle honours were still won by individual units who performed well in a particular battle. Even if the battle was lost .

Could be the reason why...but still when I remember the battle reports of Fredericksburg and the Union's performance storming up the Marey's Heights I could'nt find anything worth to be written on the flags in this slaughtering. And the Irish Brigade was there

The 28th were one of the regiments which came closest to fracturing the confederate line at Fredericksburg. Even when unable to break through the 28 th still engaged in an extended firefight with the confederates behind the stone wall (ironically more Irishmen).only after 40 per cent casualties and almost out of ammo were they forced to withdraw. There were several other union units on the day who were honoured for their fierce but ultimately futile attacks.

Cheer j1mwallace never knew that and it always adds that little bit more interest when painting up a regiment, don't need a book me, i can just throw questions on here save me a fortune in money...lol