In collecting primary sources on the Gettysburg campaign over the past 25 years, I have not uncovered a single first-hand account from a soldier in Nelligan's 1st. The regiment had a number of foreign-born soldiers, principally from Ireland, Germany and England. On 17 July 1863, at the camp in Martinsburg, Virginia, the regiment counted 12 officers and 121 men present for duty, according to the Official Reports (series I, vol. 27, part III, p. 1015). Casualties can be compiled through a painstaking review of Andrew B. Booth's Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, which is online. A brief itinerary of the regiment can be found in the Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (part II, vol. 23, series no. 35, pp. 630-652). The regiment was initially commanded at Gettysburg by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Nolan, an Irishman (and one of the very few foreign-born officers of higher rank in the Army of Northern Virginia), who was probably killed in the assault on Culp's Hill the evening of 2 July, "the day he returned to his regiment." Captain Thomas Rice of the Montgomery Guards took temporary command of the regiment until 5 July. Individual soldiers have been identified from Confederate Military History, Extended Addition entries, and from a few other sources. Ken Legendre can provide information on color bearers on the Flags board - he identified Charles S. Clancey of Company D as the color bearer at Gettysburg, who saved the colors by hiding them in his clothes when captured; Clancey escaped and returned with the flag.