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LATEST HISTORICAL UPDATES:

Over the past year, the Cumberland Guard has received some unwarranted criticism based upon half-truths and lack of knowledge about the real Civil War. In an effort to clarify some truths, we will present here from the OFFICIAL RECORDS information that enlighten our sincere critics. For the others, we doubt any truth would help.

Here are some new photos sent to us:

and from Bruce Butgereit:

RIBBONS IN THE CIVIL WAR:

Order #90
That those whose names appear on the rolls of honor remain on duty with their respective commands, and that they be distinquished, when on military duty, by wearing a red ribbon, tied in the buttonhole or attached to the coat over the left breast.
OR SERIES I, VOLUME XXIII/2 (S#35), JANUARY 21 TO AUGUST 10, 1863

THE OLD GUARD:

I am about to establish an elite battalion in each brigade, composed of those soldiers from each company, one commissioned and five non-commissioned officers from each regiment and one from brigade, to be selected for superior valor and soldierly bearing in battle and on duty.

General Rosecrans
OR SERIES I, VOLUME XXIII/2 (S#35), JANUARY 21 TO AUGUST 10, 1863

ARMBANDS:

"...each officer and man had on his left arm, a white badge, 3 inches wide..."
O.R. SERIES I, VOLUME XXVIII/1 (S#46), July 10 to Sepember 7, 1863

"The men so selected shall be called right and left flankers and will wear on their right and left arm respectfully the division badge halfway between the shoulder and the elbow. . ."
OR SERIES I, VOLUME XLVI/3, March 16 to June 30, 1865

After midnight tonight the red flannel scarf badge will hereafter be worn as a cravat or neck scarf by all to whom it has been issued. The enemy has resorted to this badge and today is wearing it around the left arm. (Note that "the enemy" would be U.S. troops)
OR SERIES I, VOLUME LI/2 S#108, Confederate Official Records, July, 1861

"Where strips of flannel are worn, they will be tied around the left arm."
OR SERIES I, VOLUME LI/2 (S#108), July, 1861

"General Order #85
The uniform or distintive badge of this corps (ambulance) shall be for private and non-commissioned officers, a broad red band around the cap with a knot upon the right side, and a red band, one inch wide, above the elbow on each arm."
OR SERIES I, VOLUME LIII (S#111), December 30, 1862

WOMEN AS WOMEN IN UNIFORM:

"Sir, I have the honor to report the reciept of a prisoner war sent here by Brigadier-General Crook in the shape of a female wearing male apparel charged as a spy for the rebels, arrested in the streets of Charleston, Va. Her statements are contradictory, at one time asserting she was in the rebel army, at another affirming she served with the twenty-third Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, U.S. Army.
OR, SERIES II, VOLUME V, (S#118), December 1, 1862 to June 10, 1863 

General King reports he has recieved a flag of truce from General Anderson to return a woman dressed in mans clothes.
O.R. SERIES I, VOLUME 16 (S#16), August 16 to September 2, 1862

"They arrested a woman in mens clothes and brought her here. She is either a spy for them (for she is a Yankee woman) or..."
OR SERIES II, VOLUME II (S#115), September 19, 1862

This woman was attached to the command of the rebel Forrest, as an officer under the name of Lieutenant Rawley..."
OR SERIES II, VOLUME VII (S#120)

IN FOX'S REGIMENTAL LOSSES:
-26th North Carolina, Co. F, Mrs. L.M. Blaylock enlisted March 20, 1861, discharged for being a woman.
-126th Pennsylvania, Co. F. Sergent Frank Mayne deserted May 24, 1862, subsequently killed in battle in another regiment and discovered to be a woman; real name, Francis Day.
-2nd Michigan, Co. F, Franklin Thompson...the soldier having a good record and fought well in several battles, but proved to be a woman ; real name was Miss Steelye.
-46th Pennsylvania, Co. D, Charles D. Fuller, detected as being a female, discharged, date unknown.

WOMEN AS WOMEN:

"My woman scout has reported..."
OR SERIES I, VOLUME XXII/2 (S#33), July 14, 1863

"Sanborns scout--a woman--reports from ..."
OR SERIES I, VOLUME XLI1/3 (S#85), September 23, 1864

"...i am in search of a scout, a woman, to be..."
OR SERIES VOLUME XLIX/2 (S#115), April 25, 1865