Colors and blood: flag passions of the Confederate South

Abstract

"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."--Jacket.

Contents

The Stars and Stripes of Sen. Davis -- The standards of state resistance -- Selecting and singing a new constellation -- Blood sacrifice and the colors of war -- The Southern Cross and Confederate consolidation -- Treason's banner and the colors of loyalty -- Conquered banners, furled and unfurled.