Greg Biggs
Yellow Hammer flag - 35th Alabama flag
Mon May 21 01:35:15 2001


Hello,

As a sidebar to this story - the 35th Alabama also was issued one of the rare battle flags of Breckinridge's Division, which was adopted by that unit sometime after the Battle of Shiloh. As the Reserve Corps at the latter battle, it had do specific battle flag like the other three corps did.

This flag has a large blue field, with red Latin cross adorned by white stars. Originally, it had been thought to have been only issued to the Kentucky troops, but a diary account from a soldier of the 35th Alabama describes an indentical flag for that regiment. They were brigaded with the 3rd Kentucky Infantry at the time.

For more on this pattern please visit our website Flags Of The Confederacy - www.confederateflags.org

Greg Biggs