Color Sergeant

Word COLOR SERGEANT
Character 14
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Up Kettle Hill Sergeant George Berry, of the Tenth, bore not only his own regimental colors but those of the Third, the color-sergeant of the Third having been shot down; he kept shouting, "Dress on the colors, boys, dress on the colors!" as he followed Captain Ayres, who was running in advance of his men, shouting and waving his hat. ❋ Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 (1992)

One of their number, Henry Bardshar, a huge Arizona miner, immediately attached himself to me as my orderly, and from that moment he was closer to me, not only in the fight, but throughout the rest of the campaign, than any other man, not even excepting the color-sergeant, Wright. ❋ Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 (1992)

One afternoon, to my genuine surprise, I was asked out of my tent by Lieutenant-Colonel Brodie (the gallant old boy had rejoined us), and found the whole regiment formed in hollow square, with the officers and color-sergeant in the middle. ❋ Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 (1992)

Among the men who showed marked courage and coolness was the tall color-sergeant, Wright; the colors were shot through three times. ❋ Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 (1992)

This was managed by Sergeant Prince Rivers, our color-sergeant, who is provost-sergeant also, and has entire charge of the prisoners and of the daily policing of the camp. ❋ Various (N/A)

The colors of the First Louisiana, torn and shivered in that fearful hail of fire, were still borne forward in front of the works by the color-sergeant, until a shell from the enemy cut the flag in two and gave the sergeant his mortal wound. ❋ T. G. Steward (N/A)

The color-sergeant of our regiment planted his colors on the works of the enemy, a rod in advance of any officer or man in the regiment. ❋ George Washington Williams (N/A)

The color-sergeant of the Seventy-seventh fell dead; another sergeant seized the flag and fell. ❋ George T. Stevens (N/A)

The colors were shot through and almost severed from the staff; the color-sergeant, Anselmas Planciancois, was killed, and two corporals struggled for the honor of bearing the flag from his dying hands. ❋ Various (N/A)

I must inform the reader that the captain and color-sergeant are closely allied. ❋ Edwin George Rundle (N/A)

Here again our color-sergeant was conspicuous in keeping far ahead of the most advanced, hanging on to the side of the hill, till he would turn about and wave the stars and stripes at his advancing comrades; then steadily advancing again, under the fire of the enemy, till he could almost have reached their rifle-pits with his flagstaff. ❋ George Washington Williams (N/A)

He extends his hand and gives me a cordial greeting, saying he is pleased to meet me, and from what he has heard of me is glad that I am his color-sergeant. ❋ Edwin George Rundle (N/A)

I was terrified for the children, but the lads made a line across the street, and the color-sergeant put the pole of the flag crosswise, barring the way; so we stopped the horse, and no one was hurt. ❋ Minnie Lindsay Rowell Carpenter (N/A)

Planciancois, Anselmas, color-sergeant of the First Louisiana ❋ George Washington Williams (N/A)

The blood of the color-sergeant is there, black now with age. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)

I turned regretfully round to the color-sergeant, winked solemnly and officially, and seeing an answering but respectful quiver in his left eyelid, said: ❋ Ernest Dunlop Swinton (1909)

Again, I did not get the flag when Bartow fell, but sometime after, from the color-sergeant of the regiment, who, wounded, was no longer able to bear it. ❋ Unknown (1907)

He was a brilliant and faithful student and became in turn a cadet-corporal, color-sergeant and lieutenant. ❋ Wilson, James H (1904)

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