Legacies of Olustee Florida
Pictures of the Confederate monuments at the Battle of Olustee site, about fifteen miles east of Lake City, Florida. There are 14 of them.
This first batch shows two individual monuments subsequently implaced. The words ought to be legible enough. In another batch, the words on a stone slab on the monument might not be so I will transcribe the words.
Sincerely,
Jimmy L. Shirley Jr.
These show the Noble Banner of the South in place on three locations. The one with the regiments name, this band surrounds the bottom of the monument which also includes the yankee regiments involved. I show this one because my wife's GGGrandfather, James Monroe Davis, was a private in the 19th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Company E and was wounded in the thigh by a Minie ball. She likes to say that her DNA was shed on that battlefield.
Sincerely,
Jimmy L. Shirley Jr.
This is the second batch of pictures. The words in picture #VI reads thusly, "TO THE MEN WHO FOUGHT AND
TRIUMPHED HERE IN THE DEFENCE
OF THEIR HOMES AND FIRESIDES,
THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED
BY THE UNITED DAUGHTERS
OF THE CONFEDERACY AIDED
BY THE STATE OF FLORIDA
IN COMMEMORATION OF THEIR
DEVOTION TO THE CAUSE OF
LIBERTY AND STATE SOVEREIGNTY
MCMXII
The words on #VII reads thus, "THE BATTLE OF OLUSTEE WAS FOUGHT
ON THIS GROUND
FEBRUARY 20 1864
BETWEEN 5000 CONFEDERATE TROOPS
COMMANDED BY GENERAL JOSEPH E. FINEGAN
AND 5000 FEDERAL TROOPS UNDER
GENERAL TRUMAN SEYMOUR
THE FEDERALS WERE DEFEATED WITH
A LOSS OF 2000 MEN
THE CONFEDERATE LOSS
WAS LESS THAN 1000.
The Jackson Flag is always hoisted during the reenactment during Colours on Saturday and on Sunday. I suspect the rest of the year that flagpole is empty. But, I could be wrong. I think not, though.
These show the Noble Banner of the South in place on three locations. The one with the regiments name, this band surrounds the bottom of the monument which also includes the yankee regiments involved. I show this one because my wife's GGGrandfather, James Monroe Davis, was a private in the 19th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Company E and was wounded in the thigh by a Minie ball. She likes to say that her DNA was shed on that battlefield.
This first batch shows two individual monuments subsequently implaced. The words ought to be legible enough. In another batch, the words on a stone slab on the monument might not be so I will transcribe the words.
Sincerely,
Jimmy L. Shirley Jr.
These show the Noble Banner of the South in place on three locations. The one with the regiments name, this band surrounds the bottom of the monument which also includes the yankee regiments involved. I show this one because my wife's GGGrandfather, James Monroe Davis, was a private in the 19th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Company E and was wounded in the thigh by a Minie ball. She likes to say that her DNA was shed on that battlefield.
Sincerely,
Jimmy L. Shirley Jr.
This is the second batch of pictures. The words in picture #VI reads thusly, "TO THE MEN WHO FOUGHT AND
TRIUMPHED HERE IN THE DEFENCE
OF THEIR HOMES AND FIRESIDES,
THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED
BY THE UNITED DAUGHTERS
OF THE CONFEDERACY AIDED
BY THE STATE OF FLORIDA
IN COMMEMORATION OF THEIR
DEVOTION TO THE CAUSE OF
LIBERTY AND STATE SOVEREIGNTY
MCMXII
The words on #VII reads thus, "THE BATTLE OF OLUSTEE WAS FOUGHT
ON THIS GROUND
FEBRUARY 20 1864
BETWEEN 5000 CONFEDERATE TROOPS
COMMANDED BY GENERAL JOSEPH E. FINEGAN
AND 5000 FEDERAL TROOPS UNDER
GENERAL TRUMAN SEYMOUR
THE FEDERALS WERE DEFEATED WITH
A LOSS OF 2000 MEN
THE CONFEDERATE LOSS
WAS LESS THAN 1000.
The Jackson Flag is always hoisted during the reenactment during Colours on Saturday and on Sunday. I suspect the rest of the year that flagpole is empty. But, I could be wrong. I think not, though.
These show the Noble Banner of the South in place on three locations. The one with the regiments name, this band surrounds the bottom of the monument which also includes the yankee regiments involved. I show this one because my wife's GGGrandfather, James Monroe Davis, was a private in the 19th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Company E and was wounded in the thigh by a Minie ball. She likes to say that her DNA was shed on that battlefield.
posted by PoP at 5:42 PM
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