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Banners, Flags, Standards and Lance-pennants

Information concerning flags.

United States Infantry 1861-1865
2 Flags were carried per Regiment - one National Flag based on the Stars and Stipes, and one Regimental Flag bearing on a blue cloth the US coat of arms. A lot of the troops raised by the various states of the United States actually did have regimental flags with the seal of their state instead of the US state seal, sometimes on a ground coloured other than blue.
Although in general, infantry flags had the same size for all the army, the National Flag design varied, depending from the military depot which purchased the flags.

The flags had cords and tassels mixed white and blue, or entirely golden. The pole´s had could be spearpoint, eagle- or helbard-shaped. The flags were carried by sergeants and in battle this job often was a sentence of death.

Confederate Infantry 1861-1865
In the "Rebel" Army flags of a chaotic diversity of all kinds were flown. One reason was that there were several different "National" Flags of the South and their subpatterns following one another during the war. Then there were state flags and corps flags for infantry regiments and often one regiment carried more than one flag, for example one "Southern" flag, one flag of the state the men were coming from or a flag which was the symbol of the corps or brigade they were part of.
As in the US Army, flags should have been carried by sergeants and later in the war by officers.

When regiments had been reduced in number or NCO´s had severely been decimated, whoever was at hand was ordered to carry the flag.

Marker flags: Small flags were carried by flank sergeants on a simple pole stuck into the musket´s barrel to mark the outer flanks of the regimental line.

Quite interesting is the fact that the Civil War battle field usually was littered with flags. Often regiments who had been reduced in battle or by disease from their original strengh of over 1000 to no more than 200 men or less were not disbanded. Instead, they still were existing as a regiment with their own regimental and national flags.
Also, at least with Federal troops, there were additional brigade and division flags carried which enabled the commander in his distant position to identify his units manoevring on the battlefield.

Zouave Regiments were a popular and pittoresque part of both Union and Confederate armies, some of them more or less disciplined and distinguished on the battlefield. A buzzing number of  different regiments in both Armies and many of them dressed in costumes looking nearly alike at the first sight makes the multitude of zouave regiments difficult to distinguish from oneanother.
Particularly the state of New York with its overflowing immigrant population raised a great number of Zouave units, several of them Irish.
Probably the most famous US Zouaves and a shining example for its exemplary discipline and conduct in battle - as well as for its terrible losses under fire at Gaine´s Mill and Second Bull Run - had been the largely Manhattan "Red Devils" 5th NY Volunteers Duryee Zouaves.

Zouaves are an outstanding highlight among your Civil War troops, but befor painting may be started, some research for the uniform seems to be inevitable.

More detailed informations on US Civil War flags can be found in:
FLAGS OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1: CONFEDERATE. Philip Katcher/Rick Scollins, Men At Arms Series Nr. 252. Published 1993.
FLAGS OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 2: UNION. Philip Katcher/Rick Scollins, Men At Arms Series Nr. 258. Published 1993.
FLAGS OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 3: STATE & VOLUNTEER. Philip Katcher/Rick Scollins/Gerry Embleton, Men At Arms Series Nr. 258. Published 1993.
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ZOUAVES. Robin Smith/Bill Younghusband, Osprey Elite Series Nr. 62, 1996.

ROFUR-FLAGS 54mm 1:32 scale Flags.

 

ROFUR-FLAGS 54mm series sheets contain the following flags that could be used with
HÄT 9001 American Civil War Zouaves 1:32 scale 
HÄT 9101 American Civil War Zouaves 2nd set 1:32 scale 

Depending upon the zouave unit you may want to represent with your figures, there are various possible flags to chose from. Regimental flags for US Zouaves in some cases were very individual, the Stars and Stripes carried usually followed the regular pattern.
For CS zouaves it might be an appropriate choice to look for a CS National Flag or a state flag depending upon where the regiment had been raised.

1/32-16: US Civil War 1861-1865 (1)

US Infantry1861:
National Flag Regulation Pattern
Regimental Flag 1848 pattern
2 Marker-Flags.

1/32-17: US Civil War 1861-1865 (2)

US Infantry 1861:
National Flag US Philadelphia depot pattern,
Regimental Flag 1861 pattern
2 Marker-Flags.

1/32-19: US Civil War 1861-1865 (4)

Confederate States Army.
CSA 1st National Battle Flag Pattern
CSA 2nd National Battle Flag Pattern
Army of Northern Virginia Battle Flag 1862-64
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida Infantry Battle Flag Sept. 1862 pattern
CS Army Battleflag 1864 pattern

Nr. 1/72-20 US/CS 1861-65 National Flags.

These 1/72 scale flags have a bigger size as used for forts, camps or public buildings.
They are large enough to be used with 54mm models also.

USA
National Flag.
CSA
1st National, 2nd National, 3rd National.