The 19th GA Second Bunting flag in Jacksonville looks virtually like the 14th TN flag in the Georgia capitol Museum so you are still good to go.

Some points for your captain:

1) an unmarked battle flag is taken and ID'd by the captors as were a number of prisoners. Some were from the 19th GA and some from the 14th TN - they were right next to each other in the battle line. So the captors assumes that it is the flag of the 19th GA. There's lots of unmarked battle flags taken in the war and some were correctly ID'd and some were not.

2) The flag requisition of July, 1863 for the 14th Tennessee states that they needed a new flag , "to replace the flag lost at Fredericksburg, Dec. 1862." When a unit has the guts to admit they lost their flag believe it. Ironically, the flag they requested to replace the Fredericksburg flag was taken at Gettysburg.

3) A Second Bunting battle flag is in a museum in Jacksonville, FL that came from the family of an officer of the 19th GA. Only about 50 Second Bunting flags were ever made and if one was lost it was not replaced with another Second Bunting but rather a Third Bunting flag with the white borders.

4) The 19th GA's color bearer admitted to saving the colors at Fredericksburg.

That's the evidence for you.

Greg Biggs