Van Dorn battle flag

English

A Van Dorn battle flag used by the 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment.

A Van Dorn battle flag used by the 15th (Northwest) Arkansas Infantry Regiment.

Etymology

Named after American major general Earl Van Dorn (1820–1863).

Noun

Van Dorn battle flag (plural Van Dorn battle flags)

1. (rare) A flag utilized by the regiments under the command of the Confederate major general Earl Van Dorn during the American Civil War.
   • 1989 January 1, Devereaux D. Cannon, The Flags of the Confederacy: An Illustrated History, St. Lukes Broadfoot Publishers, →ISBN, page 63:

     The Van Dorn battle flag had a red field adorned with thirteen white stars arranged in five rows, with a white crescent in the upper corner. The flags were bordered in yellow or white.

   • 2001 December 10, Robert Maberry Jr., Texas Flags, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 91:

     The Van Dorn battle flag, as it came to be called, was a red rectangle bordered in yellow on three sides. Thirteen stars were scattered across the field, and in the upper left was a white crescent symbolizing Missouri.

   • 2018 January 17, Sarah Laskow, “The Museum That Keeps Now-Obscure Confederate Flags”, in Atlas Obscura‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-09-25:

     The flag of the 4th Missouri Infantry, which may be one of the earliest examples of a Van Dorn battle flag.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Van Dorn battle flag.