14th Connecticut flag captures and color bearer
The Souvenir of Excursion to Battlefields of the Society of the Fourteenth Connecticut Regiment by Chaplain H. S. Stevens (Washington: Gibson Bros. Fronters and Bookbinders, 1893), p. 32, indicates that the 14th may have captured six battle flags at Gettysburg, although only five were officially reported. Frank Somers of the band stated that "one flag captured, a splendid silk flag, was torn off the staff by the finder and concealed under his coat until he got a chance to send it home." It would have been taken on the field of the Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble charge on the third day. Separately, the Zion Hill cemetery in Hartford reportedly has the grave of Amory L. Allen, who was killed at Mortons Ford, Virginia - "he carried the colors of the reg't in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristol Station, Mine Run, and Mortons Ford.