No. 37. Report of Brigadier General Lysander Cutler, U. S. Army, commanding Second Brigade.

HDQRS SECOND BRIG., FIRST DIV., FIRST ARMY CORPS,
In the Field,

July 9, 1863.

. . . . The color-sergeant of the One hundred and forty-seventh New York was killed, and the colors were caught by Sergt. William A. Wybourn, of Company I, One hundred and forty-seventh New York, and brought off the battle-field by him, notwithstanding he was himself severely wounded. . . .
L. CUTLER,

Brigadier General, Comdg. 2nd Brig., 1st Div., 1st Army Corps.

OFFICIAL RECORDS: Series 1, vol 27, Part 1 (Gettysburg Campaign) pp. 283/4

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Numbers 29. Reports of Major General Abner Doubleday, U. S. Army, commanding Third Division of, and First Army Corps.

WASHINGTON, D. C., December 14, 1863.

. . . . The color-sergeant of the One hundred and forty-seventh New York was killed, and the colors were caught by Sergt. William A. Wybourn, of Company I, One hundred and forty-seventh New York, and brought off the battle-field by him, notwithstanding he was himself severely wounded. . . .

A. DOUBLEDAY,
Major-General of Volunteers

OFFICIAL RECORDS: Series 1, vol 27, Part 1 (Gettysburg Campaign), p. 254

Color Sergeant John Hinchcliff is not mentioned in the Official Records