The 5th Texas Infantry's original "Lone Star" flag was a sixty-by-eighty-four-inch silk banner made by a Richmond contractor in late 1861 — red and white horizontal bands with a dark canton bearing a single white star, the design of the Texas state flag in regimental scale. The soldiers were attached to it. When the flag was sent to the Texas Depot in 1862 to be decorated with battle honors, two regimental officers concluded their men would not get it back in time for the campaign and quietly removed it from the depot to carry back to camp themselves. General Hood was annoyed when he found out. The flag went into action at Second Manassas and Antietam anyway.

This W. Britain figure depicts the 5th Texas Infantry flagbearer carrying the original silk Lone Star regimental flag — red and white horizontal bands, dark canton with the white star, gold fringe at the edges. He wears the regulation Confederate gray, the forage cap, the rolled blanket and haversack across his chest, and the cartridge box on his belt. The figure pairs naturally with the same regiment's later Maude Young wool flag for a "before and after" 5th Texas diorama showing the regiment's evolving colors. Pair this figure with 5th Texas Flagbearer (Maude Young Pattern) for the regiment's two flags side by side; with 1st Texas Flagbearer for the brigade-line tableau; 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 31393. From the American Civil War range. Single figure with stand-mounted flag, supplied painted and ready for display.