History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . as of blue silk down to about 1840. Duringthe civil war, the State flag was white, and an American flag took theplace of the blue regimental flag.^ The regulations for the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, issued in1879, order the State color for the infantry to be of white silk, five feetfly, and four feet and one-half deep on the pike, bea
History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . as of blue silk down to about 1840. Duringthe civil war, the State flag was white, and an American flag took theplace of the blue regimental flag.^ The regulations for the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, issued in1879, order the State color for the infantry to be of white silk, five feetfly, and four feet and one-half deep on the pike, bearing on one side theState arms and motto, as established Dec. 13, 1780, and on the reversethe pine-tree shield, with the number and name of the regiment on thescroll, the colors to be edged with yellow fringe, and to have cords andtassels of blue and white intermixed. Each regiment to carry a na-tional color six by five feet, with the name and number of the regimentin gold on the centre stripe, its staff or pike surmounted by an staff of the State color to be surmounted by a spear-head. Theartillery and cavalry have colors smaller, but of the same devices, only 1 Hon. Oliver Warner, Secretary of the Commonwealth of JIassachusetts, 1866. 39. GIO STATE SEALS, ARMS, FLAGS, AND COLORS. the cords ami tassels ior tlie artillery are red and ycllnw, and yellowfor the eavalry. The council of otlicers of any re^^inient or cori)S olcadets may adopt a regimental device and motto, wliich, if ajjprovedby the Conimauder-in-chief, may be borne on the reverse of the Statecolor in place of the pine-tree shield; but a dra\vin«,f of the device,jnoperly blazoned, must be depositetl in the oHicc of the Adjutant-General.^ Agreeably to a report of Nathan Gushing, Esq., who was appointedto prepare a seal for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the fol-lowing device was adopted as the arms of the Commonwealth, , 1780: — Arms, sap2^1iire, an Indian dressed in his shirt and moccasins,bel
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