The Scarlet Guidon Author:Ray Toepfer B-Company, 43rd Alabama Infantry (Civil War) — 'Their banner was a harlot's scarlet sash---carried in pride from the Shenandoah to Gettysburg...and to a Virginia hillside where the last of them was buried. — From the backwoods, and dirt farms they came, eighty brawling, untried men who cared little about war and less about glory. — Only their famil... more »ies would remember their names. But their glory was a thing for all times.'« less