So heres an ancestor of mine I want to honor with one of my model regiments.
John Hindman (1744-1861) a veteran of the war of 1812. He was a private in the 22 US infantry, eventually promoted sergeant in Cpt. anderson's company of the 22 US Infantry.
Don't know much else of him except he had a lot of kids, was a widower several times over and moved from South Carolina to Georgia.
one of the official national treasures stored at the New York Public Library is this flag. Made for Jack London (yep, Call of the Wild, and San Francisco street gang tough Jack) by an unknown Korean tailor and displayed by him as he covered the Russo-Japanese war as correspondent in 1909.