"Color sergeant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... then given in charge of Company F, the color company of the regiment, Charles Becherer, of Company G, being detailed as color sergeant. ...
— History of Company F, 1st Regiment, R.I. Volunteers, during the Spring and Summer of 1861 • Charles H. Clarke
... Grandpa. "Tommie home. And the color sergeant's dead!" He reached his arms out to her like a frightened ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates
... "I only know we have been ordered to go forward, and we are going," are words that will forever live in the memory of his race; they are words that match those of Sergeant Carney, the color sergeant of the 54th Massachusetts during the Civil War, who, although badly wounded, held the tattered, shot-pierced Stars and Stripes aloft and exclaimed, "The old flag never ...
— The Upward Path - A Reader For Colored Children • Various |
