Yazoo
Sentinel 1911: Last week the Herald requested a copy of
"The Bonnie Blue Flag" for publication. Mrs. J. E. B. Blewett, Mr. W. G . Deles,
Capt. C. J. Dubuisson, Mr. W. H. Kline, Sister Emerentia, and Mrs. E. J. Logan each
supplied a copy. The one printed was furnished by Mr. Deles. (Dr. George P.
Blundell, a veteran of the War, said he
remembered when Harry McCarthy,
the
author, sang it in Wilson Hall, in Yazoo City in the early '60's.
He was
encored again and again, and the audience threw dollars to him on the
stage
"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!
Hurrah! Hurrah! for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star!" (11/17/1911) |