It might have been the left of Hays' Brigade, but the right regiment of Hokes' (Avery) brigade (6th North Carolina) was also in the vicinity. I don't have the cite you mention, but I do have the following related to the 17th Connecticut. In the first day's fight, Lt. J. C. Mayne reportedly brought the state colors off the battlefield after Color Corporal Henry Burns was killed. In another source, Captain Burr is mentioned as grabbing a Confederate soldier by the collar of his coat during the fight of the evening of the second day, and pulling him over the wall in front (which runs along the lane at the foot of Cemetery Hill), making him a prisoner -- but nothing said about this rebel having a flag with him. In another source, Justus M. Silliman, who was at the hospital in town behind enemy lines, says that after the Confederates abandoned the town on July 4, he obtained a Louisiana tiger belt plate and a "piece of reb flag." Perhaps he acquired the piece from one of his comrades who had advanced into the town, and just speculating, maybe it was part of the flag that had been torn into pieces and distributed. Tom