color sergeant

American  

noun

1. a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.

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Etymology

Origin of color sergeant

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

And they appointed Mrs. Samuel Bloomer, widow of the Company's color sergeant to be custodian of their battle flag.

From Time Magazine Archive

He remembered suddenly the day Jackson had come upon some of his troops letting a valiant Yankee color sergeant withdraw after a great fight.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

Bishop Perry of Rhode Island was named as color sergeant.

From Average Americans by Roosevelt, Theodore

The color sergeant, seeing that an attack upon us was threatened, drew his revolver and stood on the defensive.

From History of Company F, 1st Regiment, R.I. Volunteers, during the Spring and Summer of 1861 by Clarke, Charles H.

The color sergeant of the Tenth Cavalry, Adam Houston, bore to the front not only his own flags, but those of the Third Cavalry when the latter's color sergeant was shot down.

From Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various