“Colors Most Frequently Hit in Battle”
It would appear, from numerous observations, that soldiers are hit during battle according to the color of their dress in the following order: Red is the most fatal color; Austrian gray is the least fatal. The proportions are — red, twelve; rifle green, seven; brown, six; Austrian bluish-gray, five.
– Frank H. Stauffer, The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical, 1882
