Slightly different accounts exist of Company C, 11th NC at Gettysburg. An address delivered in 1895 by Stephen B. Weeks on the University of North Carolina in the Civil War states that Company C lost two officers killed on 1 July, along with 34 of the 38 men killed or wounded, leaving Captain Bird of this company and four remaining men to make the charge on 3 July -- one of these (the flag bearer) was shot and the Captain brought out the flag himself. However, Confederate Military History, Extended Addition, vol. V (NC), states the company lost 34 out of 38 engaged on 1 July, including two lieutenants, the orderly sergeant, and all the corporals, leaving Second Lieutenant Edward Ralph Outlaw and three surviving comrades to charge Cemetery Ridge on 3 July; Outlaw was afterwards promoted to Captain. But, in the Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina, ed. by Walter Clark, co-authors Col. W. J. Martin and Capt. E. R. Outlaw from the 11th state that "Captain Bird, commanding Company C and the color-guard, took the flag when the last guard fell with it, and carried it on until the charge was a failure and the line retired, bringing off the flag and stub of the staff which had been twice shot off in his hands. It was the only flag brought back from that sanguinary hill. Lieutenants T. W. Cooper and E. A. Rhodes of Company C, were both killed. It was the color company, and the flag that it bore was a target for the guns and rifles of the enemy." Bird went on to become Major and Lt Colonel before being killed at Reams' Station. Incidentally, the colors of the 11th were also prominent during the fight on 1 July. On that day, Adjutant Henderson C. Lucas seized the colors after the other color bearers were shot down and led the charge "through a murderous fire ... calling on the men to follow their flag." Lucas was shot down, but rose again waving the colors until shot once more; he died of his wounds in Martinsburg, Virginia on 24 July. Another man who then took up the colors was shot down instantly.