BIO: In a diary entry written in prison after his capture, Lieutenant William Peel, 11th Mississippi Infantry, Davis' Brigade, recorded the bravery of colorbearer George Kidd. The author (Peel) died in prison in February 1865. To the left of Pickett's Virginians, the men of Pettigrew's and Trimble's commands rushed toward an angle in the stone wall. "Four brave men had already fallen under the colors of our Reg/t, & now the fifth bore them aloft, & rushed boldly forward, to embrace, if need be, the fate of the other four. The flag staff was now cut in two midway the flag, but without one moment's pause, the never-flinching Irishman (Kidd), his flag now dangling in graceless confusion from one corner, still pushed fearlessly, upon the stone fence." The battle flags of the 28th North Carolina, James Lane's brigade, and the 11th Mississippi, Joseph Davis's brigade, were both carried to the stone wall that marked the height of the Rebel advance on July 3. The Federal II Corps captured 33 Confederate colors. -- Excerpt, "Voices of the Civil War, Gettysburg," Time-Life Books.