That's right, yesterday was Flag Day, Confederate Flag Day, so I did my bit by buying a Hood's Texas Brigade plate. Pleased with that.
One of the 4 readers of this so-called 'blog" even sent in a poem. It's a melancholy tribute, here's an excerpt:
For, though conquered, they adore it,—
Love the cold, dead hands that bore it;
Weep for those who fell before it;
Pardon those who trail and tore it:
Oh, how wildly they deplore it,
Now to furl and fold it so!
State's Rights,
LSP
4 comments:
We are a band of brothers
And native to the soil,
Fighting for the property
We gained by honest toil;
And when our rights were threatened,
The cry rose near and far --
"Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star!"
Thanks for that, LL. Bonnie Blue all the way.
Poor John Bell Hood. No general in that war had more bits shot off him, and still got hoisted/strapped into the saddle, than he. A bit erratic towards the end of the war, and a positive gift to Cump Sherman when Hood commanded the remnants of CSA arms in the West, but a noble chap, all the same.
I have some of Hood's Texans in miniature, and am always happy to see them on the wargames table.
I was happy to find that plate, Padre.
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