Ben,

The ANV was way ahead of the company flags curve than the western CS armies were based on what I have seen. This March-April time frame was about when company flags stopped getting issued at all across the Confederacy. But units that had them may have still used them in some of the battles.

Another example - as we know, the official state fag of Louisiana was a flag with a lone star canton and a series of colored horizontal stripes. And yet, another Federal account from Shiloh states that they say a Pelican flag in their front. This would indicate to me, based on surviving examples, that one of the LA regiments there was either carrying a Pelican company flag as their regimental banner or the regiment was carrying more than one flag.

The Louisiana regiments at Shiloh were in the following corps - which, other than Breckinridge's, had distinctive battle flags:

11th Louisiana (Polk's Corps)

4th, 13th and 19th LA (Gibson's Brigade - Bragg's Corps)

17th, 20th and Clack's Response Battalion, 5th Co. Washington Artillery (Anderson's Brigade - Bragg's Corps)

16th, 18th, Crescent Regt., Orleans Guard Battalion (Pond's Brigade - Bragg's Corps)

1st LA (Gladden's Brigade - Bragg's Corps)

So we should be seeing one silk Polk Corps flag and several Bragg pattern battle flags for the above units. And yet one of them carried a Pelican flag.

By the way, the 2nd Texas was in John Jackson's Brigade also of Bragg's Corps and one of the Bragg pattern flags from the Alabama regiments that were also part of this brigade also survive. I would think that the 2nd Texas were also issued such a flag but did not use it at Shiloh based on the lone star account.

A number of company flags were used and captured at Mill Springs, but mostly in the camps.

Greg Biggs