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According to this page, purple is fair game for the magic branch in 1899.
I had planned to have the magic branch be purple with silver piping. But reconsidered.
The piping color is the color of the branch they're assigned to.
Purple with yellow (yellow orange if you wanna get technical) for cavalry.
Purple with white for infantry.
Purple with red for artillery.
Purple with cadet gray for commissary.
Purple with emerald green for hospital/medical.
Purple with crimson for ordnance.
Purple with buff for quartermaster.
Purple with black for signal corps.
Branch insignia are a lightning bolt crossed with a star tipped wand.
There are a bewildering array of non-commissioned officer ranks that appear to be outside the chain of command, like specialist or tech ranks.
Commissary sergeant is a thing.
There were still color sergeants in the US Army in 1899.
It gets more bewildering when dealing with non-cavalry non-coms in charge of animals for both transport and for food animals.
ReplyDeleteAs to commissary sergeant, one of my mother's relatives was a commissary sergeant for an Ohio unit in the Civil War. Another was a quartermaster sergeant.
The colors and pipings sound good. Might need a silver separator from some of the color-next-to-color combinations. Heraldry works otherwise.
And I can see the dress uniform colors. Magically enhanced to glow... That'll make the ladies want to dance with a magiker.