For the sake of completeness...
Red stripe = artillery
blue = infantry
yellow = cavalry, featured in the John Wayne flick "She wore a yellow ribbon."
When Armor formed, not quite as a branch pre-WW2, their unit/division patches and insignia became a triangle with each of the three colors.
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My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.
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