Under the auspices of Governor Gerry, in December of the year 1811, it was revived, and through his influence received a new loan of arms from the State, taking at the same time the name of the Harvard Washington Corps.  In 1812, Mr. George Thacher was appointed its commander.  The members of the company wore a blue coat, white vest, white pantaloons, white gaiters, a common black hat, and around the waist a white belt, which was always kept very neat, and to which were attached a bayonet and cartridge-box.  The officers wore the same dress, with the exceptions of a sash instead of the belt, and a chapeau in place of the hat.  Soon after this reorganization, in the fall of 1812, a banner, with the arms of the College on one side and the arms of the State on the other, was presented by the beautiful Miss Mellen, daughter of Judge Mellen of Cambridge, in the name of the ladies of that place.  The presentation took place before the door of her father’s house.  Appropriate addresses were made, both by the fair donor and the captain of the company.  Mr. Frisbie, a Professor in the College, who was at that time engaged to Miss Mellen, whom he afterwards married, recited on the occasion the following verses impromptu, which were received with great eclat.

 “The standard’s victory’s leading star,
    ’T is danger to forsake it;
  How altered are the scenes of war,
    They’re vanquished now who take it.”

A writer in the Harvardiana, 1836, referring to this banner, says:  “The gilded banner now moulders away in inglorious quiet, in the dusty retirement of a Senior Sophister’s study.  What a desecration for that ’flag by angel hands to valor given’!"[40] Within the last two years it has wholly disappeared from its accustomed resting-place.  Though departed, its memory will be ever dear to those who saw it in its better days, and under its shadow enjoyed many of the proudest moments of college life.

At its second organization, the company was one of the finest and best drilled in the State.  The members were from the Senior and Junior Classes.  The armory was in the fifth story of Hollis Hall.  The regular time for exercise was after the evening commons.  The drum would often beat before the meal was finished, and the students could then be seen rushing forth with the half-eaten biscuit, and at the same time buckling on their armor for the accustomed drill.  They usually paraded on exhibition-days, when the large concourse of people afforded an excellent opportunity for showing off their skill in military tactics and manoeuvring.  On the arrival of the news of the peace of 1815, it appears, from an interleaved almanac, that “the H.W.  Corps paraded and fired a salute; Mr. Porter treated the company.”  Again, on the 12th of May, same year, “H.W.  Corps paraded in Charlestown, saluted Com.  Bainbridge, and returned by the way of Boston.”  The captain for that year, Mr. W.H.  Moulton, dying, on the 6th of July, at five o’clock, P.M., “the class,” says the same authority, “attended the funeral of Br.  Moulton in Boston.  The H.W.  Corps attended in uniform, without arms, the ceremony of entombing their late Captain.”