...a) Artifacts with a bullet dent or hole are worth many times more than an identical artifact without the dent or hole -- from a newspaper readership standpoint, from an old vet's war tales standpoint, and from an outright dollar standpoint. All forms of profit...b) That there are sooo many surviving artifacts with bullet dents and holes out there is suspect. It's a common phenom that serious collectors and museums will scrutinize while hack collectors and mom n' pop museums merely celebrate...c) Such artifacts are easy to manufacture. Take a rusty dug scabbard worth maybe $25., add a bullet dent and its a rusty dug scabbard worth $250., then add Confederate provenance and it's a rusty dug scabbard worth $2,500.)...d) Most "pocket bibles" were not that, but rather new testaments or psalms that actually fit into a vest pocket. It's suspect that a complete St. James bible would be carried in a vest pocket rather than a haversack...