The 1st Texas Infantry went into the Cornfield at Antietam on the morning of September 17, 1862, with around two hundred and twenty-six men. Twenty minutes later, the regiment had lost a hundred and eighty-six killed and wounded — eighty-two and three-tenths percent of its strength. It remains the highest single-engagement regimental casualty rate of the entire Civil War on either side. The first pattern wool bunting flag the regiment was carrying that morning — sewn from bunting captured from the United States Navy and issued to only two or three brigades in the Army of Northern Virginia — fell with the color sergeant in the cornstalks. The Union XII Corps picked it up. The flag was returned to Texas in 1905.

This W. Britain figure depicts the 1st Texas Infantry flagbearer in regulation Confederate gray — gray frock coat, gray trousers, the forage cap, the rolled blanket and haversack across his chest, the cartridge box on his belt — carrying the First Pattern wool bunting flag with its distinctive orange border. The flag pattern is the standard Confederate Battle Flag with the St. Andrew's cross, but in the early war "First Pattern" size and edging. The figure pairs with the regiment's other Wigfall-pattern flagbearer for a "two flags of the 1st Texas" diorama showing the regiment's evolving colors through 1862. Pair this figure with 1st Texas Flagbearer (Wigfall Pattern) for the regiment's two flags side by side; with Iron Brigade Casualty Falling, the brigade that fought the 1st Texas in the same Cornfield that morning; or with Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, the corps commander under whom the Texas Brigade served from the Seven Days through Appomattox.

Scale: 1/30 (60mm). Matte-painted metal. W. Britain model 31397. From the American Civil War range. Single figure with stand-mounted flag, supplied painted and ready for display.