| The Color Episode ~The Players~ |
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| 149th Pennsylvania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 42nd Mississippi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd Mississippi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. Color-Sergeant Henry Brehm 2. 1st Corporal Frank Lehman 3. 2nd Corporal John H. Hammell 4. 3rd Corporal Henry Spayd 5. 4th Corporal John Friddell 6. 5th Corporal Frederick Hoffman |
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| 1. Sergeant Franklin D. Price 2. Private Willie Clark 3. Private Johnson |
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| 1. Lieutenant A.K.Roberts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (1). See Capt. John C. Bassler's "Color Episode of the 149th Pennsylvania Volunteers." | (2) Private Willie Clark. Pvt. Andrew Park of the 42nd Mississippi mentions in his "Some of My Recollections of the Battle of Gettysburg" mentions Willie Clark as one of the participants in the flag capture. (3) Private Johnson is mentioned in a letter from Sgt Price to John Bachalder as another man that returned to the 42nd w/ him who was shot in the shoulder. (1) Price is mentioned by several diffrent sources as a participant. Capturer of the National Colors |
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| (1). Mentioned as a participant in the assualt on the Color Guard by both Sgt Price, and in Field Reports written by both Davis, Heth and Hill. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||