The regulations for the Medical Guidon specified that was to be 14 inches wide and 28 inches long, i.e., proportioned 1:2. Randy Young and Devereaux Cannon, 10 October 1998 I don't believe that the CS Army ever used anything other than the unmarked yellow flag as a hospital flag. Prior to that, as far as I can determine, the only flag used was a plain yellow flag. Army under a General Order issued on 4 January 1864. The yellow flag with the green H was adopted as a hospital flag by the U.S. The South never got that organized they ran out of time.Д«ut as a battle would rage, the participants would use whatever they could find, of almost any color - including tablecloths and bed sheets - and the opponents often would not recognize the 'flag' as being official or as relating to a 'hospital', and would fire their cannon at the site. There were regulations about sizes, but not about materials. (Did you ever wonder why so many Civil War battles were fought on the open grass of National Parks?)ДЄs the war progressed, the Northern side began the switch to yellow flags and added the letter 'H' to the center. One reason for the high degree of infections in the wounded was the use of open fields and pastures (which had a lot of manureДЇrom the herds there) and the close proximity of barns. Often barns and farmhouses were commandeered for this purpose. that was anyplace where they could treat the wounded and perform surgeries. The one thing about medicine during this war was that 'wartime' or 'military' medicine wasn't anywhere near as 'formal' as it is today, and the services used whatever they could to satisfy the demand at the time. Red also was used to identify places where they collected the wounded for triage, and used to identify 'ambulances' - wagons used to collect and carry the wounded.Д®ven ambulances weren't specifically designed prior to the war but as time went on, the North set up designs and other specifications for ambulances. A yellow flag had been used prior to the war to denote places of quarantine, so this might have been a simple evolution. At first, both sides used simple red or yellow rectangles. Keywords: united states | ambulance | hospital | h |ДЄt the time of the Civil War, there was no prescribed design, size, or material for hospital flags.

Civil war hospital ambuleses