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Chancellorsville, VA after battle report:

No. 151.
Reports of Col. Louis R. Francine, Seventh New JerseyChancellorsville, VA after battle report:

No. 151.

Reports of Col. Louis R. Francine, Seventh New Jersey
Infantry. Infantry.

. . . . The same morning (Sunday), at about 5 o'clock, my regiment was again
detached from the brigade, and, under orders from Maj. Tremain, of
Gen. Sickles; staff, filled up a gap occurring between Birney's right
and our immediate front. After a short time, my regiment advanced into
the woods in front of the breastworks, and, by maintaining a flanking
position under a very heavy fire for over three hours, captured five
stand of colors and over 300 prisoners, among the latter 1 colonel, 1
major, and several line officers. The colors were taken from the
Twenty-first Virginia, Eighteenth North Carolina, First Louisiana,
Second North Carolina, and the fifth from some Alabama regiment. The
Second North Carolina Regt. we captured almost in toto . . .

Official Records Series I. Vol. 25. Part I, Reports. Serial No. 39

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I can attest it was still there on April 7! *NM*