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19th Ga. Inf. wartime account

I came across a "snippet" of an article from Google Books. It mentions that the battle flag of the 19th Georgia received 19 bullet
holes.

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Confederate Centennial studies {1965}

(index Note#) 22 Official Records, 1 series, XXXV, Pt.1, 337 .
Attesting the fury of the fighting, the battle flag of the Nineteenth Georgia Regiment received nineteen bullet holes (Southern Watchman, March 9, 1864). See also Jones, op. cit.,pp. 174-194.

http://books.google.com/books?id=kG8oAAAAMAAJ&q=%22nineteenth+georgia%22&dq=%22nineteenth+georgia%22&hl=en&ei=IL1rTdmWFIP7lwfPopH_AQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBDh4
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The note #22 did not state from what battle the holes were received; so i did some searching. The bullet holes were from
action seen at Olustee,Forida.

The Museum of Southern History (Jacksonville,Florida)
http://www.museumsouthernhistory.com/flags/19thgeorgiabattleflag.html
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(sources stated in note#22)
page 337 from Official Records (Casualties at Olustee)
http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar&cc=moawar&idno=waro0065&node=waro0065%3A7&frm=frameset&view=image&seq=355

Southern Watchman, Mar. 9, 1864 -- page 3 {need DjVu plugin-in}
The Battle of Ocean Pond,Fla.
http://athnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/athnewspapers/view?docId=news/swm1864/swm1864-0039.xml
"I will mention that the battle flag 19th Ga. Regt. has nineteen bullet holes in it"

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