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1st La Color-bearer

On November 28, 1863, there was fighting along the Rapidan River in Virginia. One of the Killed in Action was:

"The color-bearer of the 1st La. was killed. I could not learn his name, but he is the same who was captured at Gettysburg, and put his colors under his shirt, and thus saved them, and afterwards escaped."

As reported in the Richmond Daily Dispatch.

Can anyone identify who this brave soul was?

JR

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