South Carolina

South Carolina join the fight. Two regiments with their distinctive palm tree standards march onto the field. The reddish one is the 10th SC and the Blue one is the 7th SC.

 I've had the idea of trying to create brigades of four regiments of different states. I found these Standards on eBay for South Carolina at a good price. EBay doesn't allow the creator to sell any Confederate battle flags because of the imagery. However he does a full set on his website, Wargamesdesigns.com.

All the states are catered for and I have my eye on making a Georgia brigade.

The flags are a good size and the colour is good.

Above is the 22nd Alabama with its distinctive white cross on a blue field. This set are from Body's Banners from Redoubt miniatures.

UPDATE; After looking through a lot of photos of reference, I have decided to swop around my flags. I thought the state flag would take the honoured right hand place in the line, but it appears the battle flag out ranks it.

 So the battle flags go on the right and the state colours go on the left. However, it's not quite that simple it appears. A national flag of stars and bars or the two that followed it, out rank the battle flag. In this case the national colours goes on the right and the battle flag is pushed over to the left. So in terms of the honoured right position in line, so the hierarchy goes, National flag, Battle flag, State flag

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Phew that took some research...I never managed to find any written text about it, just visual glues. The topic of the battle flag is covered in a mountain of controversy so any information is lost. I hope this helps, I'm just glad I found out before I started flocking the bases.

A few of the newly arranged command bases with the battle flags now on the right.

So this base for the 22nd Alabama is actually correct. The 'Stainless' national flag out ranks the blue battle flag, so is placed on the right in the line. I could of got this wrong of course, but this is what I've managed to work out through visual research.