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Encyclopedia Britannica



OLUSTEE

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 92 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
OLUSTEE , a
village
  of Baker county,
Florida
 , U.S.A., in the
precinct
  of Olustee, about 46 m. W. by S. of Jacksonville. Pop. of the
precinct
  (1910) 466. The
village
  is served by the Seaboard Air Line. The
battle
  of Olustee, or Ocean
Pond
  (the name of a small
body
  of water in the vicinity), one of the most sanguinary engagements of the Civil War in proportion to the numbers engaged, was fought on the loth of
February
  1864, about 2 M.
east
  of Olustee, between about 5500 Federal troops, under General Truman
Seymour
  (1824-1891), and about 5400 Con-federates, under General Joseph Finegan, the Federal forces being decisively defeated, with a loss, in killed and wounded, of about one-third of their number, including several
officers
 . The Confederate losses, in killed and wounded, were about 940.


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