The soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle.
1They were new and beautiful, and the color bearer habitually oiled the pole.
2He unconsciously assumed the attitude of the color bearer in the fight of the preceding day.
3In the battle of Milliken's Bend, a color bearer was seen far in advance of his company.
4A color bearer went down.
5The color bearer, preceded by the first lieutenant and followed by a sergeant of the escort, then goes to obtain the color.
6Tottering among them was the rival color bearer, whom the youth saw had been bitten vitally by the bullets of the last formidable volley.
7Color bearers waved their flags in each other's faces, clinched and fought, hand to hand, like devils.