Greg Biggs
Alabama color bearers - ensigns
Thu Jun 21 00:39:50 2001


Hello,

Please keep in mind that the rank of Ensign for the color bearers was only created in early 1864 - and was rescinded in 1865.

Any rank of ensign before that was the same as a Third Lieutenant basically - and not necessarily the guy that bore the unit's colors.

I ran into this while researching the Georgia Militia and saw how many ensigns they had listed - in 1861! These were all Third Lieutenants.

Greg Biggs