== ACW regimental history article flags == 

 Hey there. Thank you for your comments. Regarding the regimental flags, I was in the process of changing flags to the respective unit's national flag when a state flag, official or unofficial, was not in use at the time. I was then informed by at least one user in the edit summaries that it was the standard for articles on regiments of the American Civil War to use modern state flags if there was no flag in use at the time, until images of regimental standards and battle flags could be uploaded.  I responded by changing the flags in some articles to the oldest possible version of a state flag, which is now the case with articles on Maine, Colorado and some of the Union Tennessee regiments now. 

 There are some regimental flags already in use on other language Wikipedia but that have uploaded to Commons, mostly on Italian Wikipedia of all places. Some files say they are eligible for upload to Commons and some say they may be copyrighted, but I highly doubt that they are. It seems a lot of the flags and standards we have are for units without articles though, so they could be put on the lists of regiments instead. 

 I could eventually get started uploading some (all?) of these flag files to Commons from Italian Wikipedia:  
 :it:Bandiere dell'esercito degli Stati Confederati d'America (teatro orientale) 
 :it:Bandiere dell'esercito degli Stati Confederati d'America (teatro orientale) 
 :it:Bandiere dell'Oltre Mississippi 
 And here are some drawings and photographs of actual flags from Tennesee regiments (mostly Confederate, some Union):  

 That said, it seems unlikely that regimental flags could be made for all of the units, particularly since some may not have had a unique one or have not survived to be recorded. Like you, I disagree with having any flag that did not exist at the time because it lends to an inaccurate notion that it did. I would propose any of the following: 
 *Removing all flags except those specifically associated with a particular unit 
 *Removing all flags except period accurate state flags and regimental flags 
 *Adding national flags in cases where state flags did not exist, as I was in the process of doing and state and regimental flags when appropriate. 

 Thank you for your consideration. If these comments need to be moved to a more appropriate forum, you can feel free to move them yourself or tell me where because I don't know exactly know where to go if this is to be discussed.