color sergeant
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of color sergeant
First recorded in 1805–15
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And they appointed Mrs. Samuel Bloomer, widow of the Company's color sergeant to be custodian of their battle flag.
From Time Magazine Archive
He remembered suddenly the day Jackson had come upon some of his troops letting a valiant Yankee color sergeant withdraw after a great fight.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
They are to-day in the custody of the company's color sergeant, B.B.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896 by Various
The color sergeant, a gallant soldier from Hingham by the name of Thomas Hickey, had carried the standard through the hottest of the battle.
From The Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry in the Closing Scenes of the War for the Maintenance of the Union, from Richmond to Appomatox by William B. Arnold
He passed it on to the Austrian and the color sergeant, and they also started.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
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