Excerpt from Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 1 At this period the name of the Company was the Richmond Light Infantry, - but it appears that after the change of the uni form from red to blue, they were designated in common parlance as The Blues, and this name at last seems to have been added to the other by general consent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.