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Colors and Blood

Flag Passions of the Confederate South

Robert E. Bonner

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Sachbuch / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)

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As rancorous debates over Confederate symbols continue, Robert Bonner explores how the rebel flag gained its enormous power to inspire and repel. In the process, he shows how the Confederacy sustained itself for as long as it did by cultivating the allegiances of countless ordinary citizens. Bonner also comments more broadly on flag passions--those intense emotional reactions to waving pieces of cloth that inflame patriots to kill and die.



Colors and Blood depicts a pervasive flag culture that set the emotional tone of the Civil War in the Union as well as the Confederacy. Northerners and southerners alike devoted incredible energy to flags, but the Confederate project was unique in creating a set of national symbols from scratch. In describing the activities of white southerners who designed, sewed, celebrated, sang about, and bled for their new country's most visible symbols, the book charts the emergence of Confederate nationalism. Theatrical flag performances that cast secession in a melodramatic mode both amplified and contained patriotic emotions, contributing to a flag-centered popular patriotism that motivated true believers to defy and sacrifice. This wartime flag culture nourished Confederate nationalism for four years, but flags' martial associations ultimately eclipsed their expression of political independence. After 1865, conquered banners evoked valor and heroism while obscuring the ideology of a slaveholders' rebellion, and white southerners recast the totems of Confederate nationalism as relics of the Lost Cause.


At the heart of this story is the tremendous capacity of bloodshed to infuse symbols with emotional power. Confederate flag culture, black southerners' charged relationship to the Stars and Stripes, contemporary efforts to banish the Southern Cross, and arguments over burning the Star Spangled Banner have this in common: all demonstrate Americans' passionate relationship with symbols that have been imaginatively soaked in blood.

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Slave rebellion, American Civil War, Nullification Crisis, Benjamin Butler (politician), The Passing of the Armies, Compromise of 1877, Confederate States of America, James Henley Thornwell, Second Reconstruction, Joshua Chamberlain, Louis Wigfall, African Americans, Racism, Dixiecrat, Henry Hotze, Flags of the Confederate States of America, Black Patriot, Poetry, Copperhead (politics), Political revolution, Fort Sumter, Henry Timrod, National flag, Superiority (short story), Jews, Border states (American Civil War), New Departure (Democrats), Puritans, Guerrilla warfare, William Moultrie, Battle Cry of Freedom, Origins of the American Civil War, Warfare, Barbara Frietchie, John Bell Hood, Medal of Honor, Imperialism, Rebel yell, Congress of the Confederate States, White Southerners, Abolitionism, John Brown's Body, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Grand Army of the Republic, Manifest destiny, Emancipation Proclamation, The Conquered Banner, Slavery, National symbol, American patriotism, Victory or death, Emblem, Iconoclasm, The Red Badge of Courage, War crime, Modern display of the Confederate flag, P. G. T. Beauregard, Mail, Five-pointed star, Ellen Key, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Porcher Miles, Francis Scott Key, Julia Ward Howe, Religion, Patriotism, Trent Affair, Prisoner of war, War, John Greenleaf Whittier