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Recovery of the 26th Alabama Standard

Major Terry's, 4th Virginia Infantry, Chancellorsville after action report does not mention the loss of these color bearers,
nor is his attached casualty list found in the OR.

However, he does report retaking the colors of the 26th Alabama.

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No. 401 Maj. William Terry, Fourth Virginia Infantry

Report No. 401 Maj. William Terry, Fourth Virginia Infantry

. . . . After the lapse of a short time, the brigade was ordered . by Major-General Stuart, and we again advanced in line of battle, the Fifth [Virginia] Regiment on my left and the Twelfth Georgia on my right. We drove the enemy before us for nearly three-fourths of a mile from some earthworks crowning the crest of a hill. We reached and occupied these defenses.

It is proper to state here that at these breastworks we recaptured from the enemy the battle-flag of the Twenty-sixth Alabama Regiment, and afterward restored it to the color sergeant and a lieutenant of said regiment, who recognized it as theirs. A member of my regiment captured also a small artillery flag, which he tore from a piece of artillery captured near the house on said hill. The flag-staff being shot nearly in two, nothing but the flag was brought off, and is now in possession of the captor. . .

WM. TERRY,
Major, Commanding Fourth Virginia Infantry.
OR V25, Pt. 1, pp. 1018/9

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