"Honorable Joseph E. Brown, Governor of the State of Georgia, is here; and, by virtue of the authority vested in that functionary, he has issued peremptory orders that only eighty-four men shall be in any company mustered into the service; and that there shall only be one flag in the Regiment. Now, the Clinch Rifles number ninety four men, and have a flag. According to this mandate of His Excellency, nine of the privates, and the standard bearer, will have to return home. The feeling of “the nine” and the color-bearer may possibly be imagined—but I doubt it. We (the Clinch) think it hard that our flag—the first one made and hoisted, after the adoption of the standard by our Southern Congress—should not have a place in the picture. But so it is. The new army record prescribes the color-bearer to be the Fifth Sergeant of the centre company of the Regiment."
My question: What company would be in the center of the regiment? My ancestor started out as a 5th Sergeant(Co.B) with the 19th Ga. and it is said they were the Color-Company for the regiment. I'am just trying to figure this out. He held the rank of Color-Sergeant before the company was mustered in at Camp McDonald(6/11/61) And (Fifth)Sergt. at Camp McDonald to June 1862.