THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG
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- Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024
- The Bonnie Blue Flag
The flag itself - a single white 5-point star on a dark blue field - first appeared in 1810 as the banner of the 'Republic of West Florida', but was quickly ushered off history's stage by the Louisiana Purchase after hardly 3 months. Some years after, another version reappeared, representing the 'Republic of Texas', in late 1836.
The 'Bonnie Blue Flag' cheered in the song, was written by Harry Macarthy, a comedian and song-and-dance performer who emigrated from Ireland in 1849. Calling himself the 'Arkansas Comedian', he and his wife Lottie toured throughout the south in the years before the war, giving what they called 'personation' shows.
Macarthy borrowed the melody of a catchy Irish folk tune called "The Irish Jaunting Car" (popular in the mid-1850's Victorian British Isles), and wrote lyrics that turned it into an early-war, patriotic narrative song that tells the story of the state-by-state formation of the Confederate States of America in order of their secession. Published in no fewer than six editions from 1861 to 1864, the song soon became hugely popular with both southern soldiers and civilians, and was even banned by the Union commander in New Orleans, the publisher's home town. In early 1861, Macarthy and his wife, who had been performing in New Orleans, debuted the song in a concert at Jackson, Mississippi, using it as the finale to their act. They went on to sing it for Jefferson Davis's inauguration as President of the young Confederacy in Montgomery, Alabama, in February of '61.
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After this weeks events we should all proudly raise our Bonnie blue flags in support of Texas gallantly taking the stand.
Your music is truly a light in the darkness. Thank you, gents 🍻
Agreed
Do you vote for democrats?
@@ФилипЂукић sounds like a reply on the wrong post holmes
@@b.r.holmes6365 Democrats created Confederacy.
❤ FROM WESTERN KENTUCKY ❤️
Looks like we need a new version for the latest... starting with Texas
Yes definitely
God's and Generals was a great movie, one of my very favorites.
damn what going on in texas makes this song have special meaning
One of the best songs you guys sing, love it.
Fantastic! Thank you for keeping this history alive!
Greetings from Europe. Thanks for reposting the video of this song. You never cease to make me happy.
Good to see people can still have fun like this in these dark times
Hurrah for Bonnie Blue!
Oh my, this guys makes me feel proud oh being a southerner, and i'm not even from the south nor from america. Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
HAHAHAHAHA...
Im a yankee from Pennsylvania. In traveling ive never been treated better than my wife Beth and myself went south. God bless the south and the good folks that live there. The entire country could learn a lession.. God bless 😊
Respect from Poland, thank you for upload
I hope that the Polish government will finally recognize the Upper Silesian minority as a separate nation 💛💙
@@Matthias_SZL Silesia belongs to Czech republic hahahahahah
Another amazing video by you fine folks my family where Irish confederate died for they saw was right God bless you all and deo vindice
Keep the anthems alive!!! Love from Scotland 🏴
Love your music and I’m 16 and been loving civil war songs since when I was 15 keep up the good work boys.
check out song for the irish brigade by David Kincaid
@@pintoffanta2510 Amen to that !
@@pintoffanta2510 Good Song. I favorite civil war songs are Battle Hymn of the Republic, Marching Through Georgia, Jackson in the Valley, Stonewall Jacksons Way, Bonnie Blue Flag, When Johnny comes marching home and Rally round the flag
Gents, only one word to describe this, FABULOUS!! Regards from the UK, Bob
I am 14 and have been listening to the second South Carolina Strings Band since I was 9 or 10 love these songs and never fells to lift my spirits God Bless America y’all
That ought to be 'God bless Dixie'. Thank me later.
Thanks a lot, Jack Raney !
Real music, greetings from Italy, you're the real american spirit
The West is a sleeping giant
Hurrah to the Confederates
Our history is not over, honor to you boys
Viva Italia! Respects from California!
AMEN, Brethren! THANKS and our beautiful homeland grows more precious every day. The best to ALL Yall from across the not so northern border! Right above the highest waterfall east of the missisip!
Love it. Southern blood will never die
Loved seeing you guys in Gods and Generals!
I'm a scouser and I can definitely hear an Irish influence here!
What I'd give to spend time in America listening to you guys 😍
2011, 2021, 2031
and for the next 10.000 years.
Hooray for the
Bonnie Blue Flag!!!
God bless America!
❤️❤️❤️💕🇮🇹🌈🇺🇲💕❤️❤️❤️
Great music greetings from mexico hurra for the bonnie blue flag.
I remember being at this show at Gettysburg back in 2018! What a great event it was! Y'all sounded amazing and I remember requesting Stonewall Jackson's Way during one of your performances with the spectators and having some banter about being a banjo player myself!
u guys are amazing and talented human beings keep doing what u do god blees yall
Great music, great movie, great culture!
I love that you described the background of this song, quite fascinating 😊
Wonderful performance, love your music ❤
Wonderful! God bless the South and greetings from Poland!
o, to jest nas więcej:) Choć nie popieram niewolnictwa żadną miarą, to jakoś sympatię żywię właśnie dla Południa.
@@antares85PL oni są podobni do nas, bo walczyli o swoją niepodległość w latach 1861-65. A my 1863/64.
From the Philippines. This song became my signature personal marching song, whenever i walk around anywhere around my hometown. and of course to play war to my fellow friends. This song itself is one of the best tunes in the American Civil War besides Dixie. Despite myself supporting the Union LOL, i also listen to rebel and yankee songs the same time.
From America - The Union has betrayed the citizens... again. It's moral error to support evil. Those who do will suffer God's wrath
Hurrah, from Georgia! Deo Vindice!
Harry and his Lady love Lottie live on through the men and women who play their music. 💙
Hi from Scotland - you guys are amazing!! God Bless Dixie
This is a song about the traitorous Confederacy, which started the war over SLAVERY.
I know we love the confederacy, but I live in west panhandle Florida and the Bonnie Blue was our sovereign flag for damn near a year in 1810. Before the war, before Texas, there was the Republic of West Florida and we will NEVER FORGET 🏴
Always a good day when I see you gents posting. I may be a redcoat, but I love listening to your songs of coats grey and blue and you've all really gotten me into US Civil War music and history. You've inspired me to branch out from guitar and learn banjo. My great-grandad played all the classics and dreamed of visiting the states. I hope that with his banjo in hand I'll play in the states one day! I hope to see you all some day as well.
Thank you all for everything you do, lots of love from Northumberland on the English-Scottish border.
We'd love to have ya. God bless from Kentucky.
Sorry to hear you guys are disbanded, hopefully you guys get back together one day
Private Eric Robertson of the 15th Texas dismounted cavalry Company E. I enjoy you 2nd South Carolina boy’s music and I salute you.
It’s a great anthem of the old south. I particularly liked our soldiers marching across the river on the far bank(in Horse Soldiers-John Wayne)singing it proud and bold. Thanks guys for the years of music and carrying on tradition.
Спасибо, как раз под мой день рождения 19 мая! И моя любимая песня!
Добро пожаловать и с Днем Рождения Вас !!
ESSE MÚSICA EMPOLGA A TODOS.
A BANDA É A MELHOR.
👍👊🤜🤛📺🇧🇷
olha" um br aqui, prazer em te vê-lo
Wonderful rendition of a great song, even as a pro-union guy.
#StandWithTexas
Greetings from Germany!
Wonderful performance gentlemen.
❤️🇺🇸 From Western Kentucky 🇺🇸❤️
❤ DIXIE ❤
Herrlich. Danke!
BITTE !!!
Once again, thank you for another fine upload. Cheers from Athens, Greece!
God bless Dixie.
Greetings from Ireland.Fantastic music
This is a song about the traitorous Confederacy, which started the war over SLAVERY.
@@JonBrownSherman Both can be true at the same time. The Union made imitation versions of the song due to its popularity. Just as the Confederacy did with Battle Cry of Freedom.
Yeeeeeehhhhhaaaaa!!!! long live sacred DIXIELAND!!!!!! HOORAAHH!! HOOORAHHH!!!
I’m French, and i love all your songs, you’re really wonderful ! ❤
Kocham szarych żołnierzy!!!!
You guys should make a live stream of your playing sessions, I could listen to this for hours
Same
I saw you guys play at the re-enactment of the battle of new market back in 2005. Great music.
Now heres to brave Virginia that kept the south alive 🙏🏽
Hell yeah! Fellow Virginian
Keep the awesome music coming!
Don't you just love those country boys....
The fact is that southern soldiers did not fight to 'preserve the institutions of slavery' because more than 90-95% of them were simple peasants and farmers or simple workers. .. they only took up arms out of love for their own States which they wanted to defend against the interference and armed incursion of the federal army... the North only started the war for reasons unofficial and not primarily and officially to abolish slavery...the unofficial reasons were that at the time 3 parties monopolized politics in the USA (Democrats and Republicans as currently...and the ''Unionist'' party ') and the Unionist Party refused to allow any state to leave the federal territorial system of the USA and therefore supported and supported Lincoln for the declaration of war and to bring the ''secessionists'' within the Union willingly or by force...
The second reason was more ''economic'' in that the agricultural South concentrated most of the resources that the industrial North needed for its textile factories = cotton. At that time, women wore imposing outfits (crinoline dresses, petticoats and other "toilets", underwear, etc.) which required enormous quantities of cotton (men's clothes were also mainly made from starting from cotton...) and the rapprochements of the cotton producing States mainly with France and England, were going to cause the ruin of a part of the industrialists of the North and cause their factories to collapse... they therefore unwaveringly supported Lincoln and the power in Washington to ''reduce the South''... you just have to look at the stock prices (financial markets) of the time to see that cotton prices were skyrocketing...
The slavery point of view only enter in consideration after these two first points ... like the '' the winner rewrites the narrative in his image '' like volunteers integrations of black people in proud Union regiments with '' good Hoolywood interpretations '' ( Movie : '' Glory '' ) , in the fact blacks soldiers were undergoing racism from their officiers ... the lesser known fact is that blacks fought alongside their ''white owners'' against Union troops..
After the war, with the massive destruction in the South (Sherman and his troops) many blacks no longer had roofs over their heads, no more activities, no more food (provided by the former white owners) and more no future in a ruined and devastated South... many thousand of them went back towards the '' liberating north '' with hope to a better life , that will not be the case ... in the decades after the end of the '' Civil War '' ( In Europe called '' The Secession War '' because in the fact it could be considered as the seond '' Civil War '' because the first one was for the '' Independance war '' which was also a '' Civil War '' considering that the '' 13 colonies '' were british and the '' Americans people '' also citizen of the King of England ... Georges washingthon and its milicians fight side English troups against French Royal Army during Canada Campaigns ... ) ... so and at last in the decades affter the war , number of black people were killed inside the North States which were in the side of Union ...
It will be interesting to have statistics in our time showing the number by state where blacks are most killed by police forces or by ''racist acts''... Americans and the black community would then see that these are more generally in the ''old states of the 'Union' (during the time of the Civil War) where the number is potentially higher than in the 'former Confederate States''...
The actuals Democrats which want to change the narrative of the History and debunk Conféderate Statues to erase History ( How could you say to the future generations that it had exited if physical evidence disappear according to wokist wishes because you could say it was only films, stories or entertainment scenarios ... like could you say that the space ships in science fiction films are visually very real ... but it is not exist at all ... ) ... yes Democrats want to buy a moral virginity by failing to tell ''awakened people'' and a large majority of blacks that all those elected to Congress in the Southern States were all Democrats (!!!) and for the continuation of slavery (the abolitionist States of the North and Lincoln were Republicans!!!) and above all represented a minority of landowners who owned slaves for their cotton plantations... the large majority of southerners who took up arms only did so to defend their own states which were dear to their eyes and in their hearts...
1. The main issue which lead to 11 states seceding *was that The Republicans were going to severely limit the spread of slavery into the Western territories.* They were not going to allow states west of Missouri and the Mississippi River to choose to be slave states on their own. So yes, both states rights and slavery merged into the same thorn in the side that preferred the path of bondage. You can say that deciding to enslave someone in a territory applying for statehood was a state's rights issue, but the Federal Govt had an interest in declaring that the US territories would be free of human bondage.😮.
According to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the only territory west of the Mississippi open to become a slave state turned out to be Oklahoma and slightly later Texas in 1836 followed by when it became a State. Polk's invasion of Mexico opened up the possibility that a whole bunch of newly acquired Southwestern conquered lands would become slave states, leading to Abolitionists trying to prevent the wholesale spread of slavery into territories. They succeeded with California but the failures with Kansas, which lead to the Civil War, are well known.
Bull and shit
Here a few quotes that show how simple, and typical, confederate soldiers saw the conflict when it started:
(letters and diaries from 1861-63):
"the vandals of the north are determined to destroy slavery. We must all fight, and I choose to fight for southern rights and southern liberty"
Another one: "A stand must be made for African slavery, or it is forever lost"
And another: "this country without slave labor would be completely worthless. We can only live and exist by that species of labor and hence I'm wiling to fight to the last"
And that's how they saw Lincoln: "Lincoln declares (the blacks) as entitled to all the rights and privileges as American citizen So imagine your sweet little girls in the school room with a black wooly headed negro, and have to treat them as their equal"
No doubt in their mind, then, what the fight was about. And that was of course also the official reasons
given by the southern states at the time:
"We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself
has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States. Those States have assumed the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery;
they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States. They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes; and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection.
For twenty-five years this agitation has been steadily increasing, until it has now secured to its aid the power
of the common Government. Observing the forms of the constitution, a sectional party has found within that
Article establishing the Executive Department, the means of subverting the Constitution itself. A geographical
line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man
to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He
is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free," and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction."
So no doubt, whatsoever, that the South was fighting over slavery and slavery only. Only from the 1880s onwards,
and as an attempt to roll back the rights for black Americans that the war had achieved, did the lost cause propaganda come up with different rationales, none of which held any water ubt worked on the gullible and bigoted then as now, so it seems.
"How many of you saw that little known movie called gods and generals? Most of them are here." Haha.
mid movie
josey wales better
Sempre ouço esse pessoal da Carolina do Sul
Famosa Dixieland
E Soldier
This song is absolutely amazing, I love it beyond belief, it's my second favorite song behind Dixie. But now, of what's happening in this country, it has a whole different meaning.
Does it say something about SLAVERY?
@@JonBrownSherman no? It has no mention of slavery
@@Pansexual_Pratt "Bonnie Blue Flag" refers to the first unofficial flag of the Confederancy. A blue flag with a single white star.
@@JonBrownSherman ok? It is a song about the secession of the southern states, using the unofficial first flag. I don't see what you're talking about
Bro likes pans
Hurrah for the Bonnie blue flag God bless Dixie
Thank you for the great music! 🍻
Just more than a light in darkness ❤😊. I hope you guys go on..
Thanks very much ! As long as we have video to share...
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand thanks so much for sharing videos and your music, it's a real light in darkness, even I am far away on the other side of the ocean. Honestly I hope for your performance in Germany..
I LOVE this type of music..thank you❤..from Indiana but my family is from Fauquier Co VA..Becca M..
Hi from Australia i am finding Americain's have some great lively tunes
Damn right !!! Welcome from 'down under' !
I like the spirit and the enthusiasm of this.
Beatifull music greetings from a friend in Brazil! Hurrah for The Bonnie Blue Flag!
Ain’t heard no yell for Virginia😭😂 wild
God bless Dixie from Russia ❤
I love that the song includes what states joined when
Fabulous, as all ways!
nice work
Great music.
Hurrah !! Respect from Warwickshire , England
Love to Dixie from Spain
We're getting the band back together boys!
indeed! Good to see a fellow Collin here hahaha. "Here's to our confederacy."
Wish you guys would do a version that included Missouri, star number 12! I once saw the words to it on Civil War Talk.🤔
God bless Missouri, from South Carolina!
Nailed it!!
Fantastic performance as always.
Thanks, Mao ! Good to hear from you again !!
Greetings from Finland! Great song!
This is a song about the traitorous Confederacy, which started the war over SLAVERY.
Net Molotov, Net Molotov!
The hard-won song of a combat officer.
great stuff!
Incredible Job gents, y'all play perfect as always! Greetings from Holland gentleman!!
Kuthollander
@@gtworldzhd4137 Krijg tering belg vreet mn noten
You can't beat this song including Dixie. I had no idea several thousand Mexicans fought for the South. Mostly from Texas.
The BEST REBEL YELLS I ever heard! Long live the South and the Confederacy!
It was a pro-slavery rebellion. What about the Confederacy are you excited for in the UK?
Such an amazing energy with all of the Candlelight Concerts! Can't wait for the next one!
Greetings from Virginia the old dominion state!!!
Audience doing a fine impression of the rebel yell.
im a northerner but wish i was a sc man and this makes me feel super southern
Come on down, the South has the soul of the USA, and we're always welcoming of any who wish to join us.
Play it again Joe !😊😊😊
Amazing! Look forward to hearing you fellas soon
Thanks very much, but we're no longer 'touring'. RUclips is where to find us these days. Sorry to disappoint, but the only place you'll be able to see us 'in action' going forward, will be here on RUclips. The band DIS-banded at the end of 2019, due to aging-out mostly. Most of us started together in 1989, when we were already in our mid-40's. The 'annoyances' of aging, PC/Cancel Culture, and the restrictions of Covid combined in a sort of perfect storm that made it clear the time had come for us to 'drop the mic’ and leave the stage... That said, we truly appreciate your kind inquiry. Hopefully, you'll keep an eye out for us on our YT channel - ruclips.net/channel/UC6RHX6u-WDoS0EuMgIyfHrA. Be sure to subscribe, like, and click on the 'bell' to get notifications of new releases.
@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand that's sad to hear. I'd have loved to hear yall at a reenactment or somthin! But I'll definitely keep my eye out on here. I'm 28 and me, my pop, uncle and cousin all plan to get back into It all. Just want you all to know there's still some of us young fellas who appreciate this music and our heritage. And to hell with PC culture. Thank yall!
@@bigjess7406 That's the SPIRIT ! Thanks for your support and the kind words. Truly sorry to disappoint y'all !
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand AAAGH what a shame! I love this kind of living history, we need so so much more of it in the world. I wish more folks were able of critical analysis. It's a window into a life that's not very well understood in the 21st century. You've all done your part and for that the country owes all y'all a debt. I'm 22 but I grew up listening to y'all's music, and I still do listen to it. It's such a shame my peers have a 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' type attitude about much that makes them uncomfortable.
@@noahturner7123 Thanks for that, Noah ! With folks like yourself still listening, we'll be able to keep these songs 'evergreen'... God bless !
Love from England
I love dies song es live South Caroilna
my great great grand father was in th 14 sc
God bless him ! Mine was in Co. D, 7th Tenn Cav. CS. The other in Co. F, 26th Ill. God bless 'em all !!
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand god bless them all!
My great great great grandfather was general Armistead
@@31stvirginia My 6x great grandfather was Admiral Horatio Nelson.
but yea, wrong war.
Greetings from New Orléans. Hurrah!
***FREE BURMA UNITED WE STAND AGAINST MILITARY COUP***
**CSA**
***THANK YOU EVERYONE***
Fantastic 🏴🇬🇧
¡Maravilloso!
Saludos desde España🇪🇦
😊
Good old time!
NICE