Van Dorn battle flag
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[edit]A Van Dorn battle flag used by the 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment.
A Van Dorn battle flag used by the 15th (Northwest) Arkansas Infantry Regiment.
Etymology
[edit]Named after American major general Earl Van Dorn (1820–1863).
Noun
[edit]Van Dorn battle flag (plural Van Dorn battle flags)
- (rare) A flag utilized by the regiments under the command of the Confederate major general Earl Van Dorn during the American Civil War.
- 1989 January 1, Devereaux D. Cannon, The Flags of the Confederacy: An Illustrated History, St. Lukes Broadfoot Publishers, →ISBN, page 63:
- The Van Dorn battle flag had a red field adorned with thirteen white stars arranged in five rows, with a white crescent in the upper corner. The flags were bordered in yellow or white.
- 2001 December 10, Robert Maberry Jr., Texas Flags, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 91:
- The Van Dorn battle flag, as it came to be called, was a red rectangle bordered in yellow on three sides. Thirteen stars were scattered across the field, and in the upper left was a white crescent symbolizing Missouri.
- 2018 January 17, Sarah Laskow, “The Museum That Keeps Now-Obscure Confederate Flags”, in Atlas Obscura[1], archived from the original on 2023-09-25:
- The flag of the 4th Missouri Infantry, which may be one of the earliest examples of a Van Dorn battle flag.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Van Dorn battle flag.