flags carried by of pollard bear. chosen as anl was honor. he would stand in front of the regimen so everyone equally to the left and right could carry them and would carry them into the battle straight as the enemy. a surprise for the troops but communicated on the battlefield. among the smoke and confusion of the civil war battlefield, if you get lost or confused, you look to the flag. so i think it is important to point out that they had a high rate.ity -- mortality many of them were killed or injured during the civil or. i have no doubt some of our flags were carried by some of the men who lost their life while killing them. this was the flag of the infantry known as the bloody seven. they lost more troops than any other regimen from west virginia during the civil war. you can see why those numbers were so high. the flags will tell you what battle they were in. they were at bloody lane at antietam. at gettysburg, chancellorsville, freddy's -- fredericksburg. also that of the first calgary, both of them have been to be at the dayox courtho