" Private William Kelly saw his colonel with the flag and took it from him, saying, “the Colonel of the Twenty-Fourth Michigan shall not carry the colors while I am alive.” The angel of death found Kelly quickly and in a moment he lay at Col. Henry Morrow’s feet, dead. At this point, the eighth (if Colonel Morrow’s brief tenure as color bearer is counted) man to carry the 24th’s colors, Private Lilburn A. Spaulding, claimed the flag. "