Comments - Color Sergeant Michael Brady: The Luckiest Irishman in America's Civil War - The Wild Geese2024-03-29T10:56:07Zhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=6442157%3ABlogPost%3A78947&xn_auth=noGreetings, sorry for coming s…tag:thewildgeese.irish,2018-06-12:6442157:Comment:2332102018-06-12T22:13:18.063ZReginald Wirthhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/ReginaldWirth
<p>Greetings, sorry for coming so late to this, but I just became aware of your articles dealing the Colors of the 69th PVI. I worked very closely with Bill Rose on the researching the original Regimental colors (the "green flag", BTW the stars and strips is the State Colors). In the film "Gettysburg" I'm the color bearer of the Regimentals. The colors used in the movie were based upon the research that we did and depicted the flag as we believed it may have appeared. That particular flag had…</p>
<p>Greetings, sorry for coming so late to this, but I just became aware of your articles dealing the Colors of the 69th PVI. I worked very closely with Bill Rose on the researching the original Regimental colors (the "green flag", BTW the stars and strips is the State Colors). In the film "Gettysburg" I'm the color bearer of the Regimentals. The colors used in the movie were based upon the research that we did and depicted the flag as we believed it may have appeared. That particular flag had a defect in it and was destroyed directly after the completion of the filming (I still have some pieces from it) and replaced. The original colors where made by Horstmann Bros. of Philadelphia, as were all the colors for the Philadelphia Brigade. We found a couple of written descriptions of the flag, which were much the same as you posted in your article on the flag, but we also found a block print on the flag. It appeared in Harper's Weekly under the title "Charge of the 69th Pennsylvania at Glendale". I should point out that the print in not all that reliable source. It was used serial times during the war with the name the regiment and location changed, along with the flag and numbers on the troops' packs. In the print the flag is shown with a harp encircled comply by a wreath of shamrocks, there are no ribbons shown on the harp side. When we were putting together the reconstruction the ribbons was a point of much conversation between Bill and I. In the end it was felt that the flag looked better with the red ribbons on both sides. As to the side with the State arms and the "Presented By Their Friends", this was a standard Horstmann pattern, as several PA regiments had this on their colors. For ours we took in directly from a existing flag. The remains of one of the original Regimentals can be found in a shoe box at the GAR Museum and Library in Philadelphia. It is a many many tiny pieces.</p>
<p>One last comment, the reason the colors appear to be reversed in "Gettysburg", in the course of our research Bill and I found reference to the 69th carrying their colors with the Regimental on the right. At the time of the Civil War there was no "Flag Code" and some units carried it on one and other the other.</p>
<p>Hope this has been of some interest.</p> Nice article Michael tag:thewildgeese.irish,2016-06-16:6442157:Comment:1933892016-06-16T15:31:23.477ZThat's Just How It Washttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/MaryThorpe
<p>Nice article Michael </p>
<p>Nice article Michael </p>