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Definition of Color bearer
1. Noun. The soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle.
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Generic synonyms: Soldier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Color Bearer
Literary usage of Color bearer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"... duct Sergeant Oldham was the color-bearer of the Second Kentucky regiment at
the battle of Donelson, and acted with great gallantry upon that occasion. ..."
2. Life of Lieutenant-General Nathan Bedford Forrest by John Allan Wyeth (1908)
"Color-Bearer and Rallies the Men—His Cavalry Saved the Day—Defeat of Hood in
Front of Nashville—Desperate Fighting by Chalmers and Rucker to Protect Hood's ..."
3. Iowa Journal of History by State Historical Society of Iowa (1908)
"THE color bearer OF THE TWELFTH IOWA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY Sergeant Henry J. Grannis,
of the Twelfth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, who died at Fayette, Iowa, ..."
4. The Civil War in Song and Story: 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"The 'color-bearer' fell, but the ' flag ' did not. Half the guard fell, but
the 'flag' was there. Ask (if 1 never come home) my Colonel or ..."
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