So! The Bonnie Blue Flag actually existed as a part of our Civil War History! And I always thought that I was an American history buff in elementary and high school. This is the first time that I have heard of it. It was not even mentioned in my World Book Encylopedia, 1950 edition. I wonder why? At the time, I thought our history, as it was taught in the public schools of Alabama, was so innocent, so pure, and so accurate. Of course, even our history books of the Fifties were written by Yankees, chosen and approved by Yankee sympathizers in the (Alabama) Department of Education. That explains that one. I googled the Bonnie Blue Flag. The information that popped up was pretty much as that of Danny’s. Thank you Danny for bringing the Bonnie Blue Flag to my attention. About the only additional piece of information that Google produced was its connection to the Republic of West Florida and the rebellion against the Spanish that occurred a few years earlier.

I know that the pundits in the Yankee-based Media are already saying “Who cares?”, which is likely the reason so few have heard of it. To them, it was merely another of the southern evils that was “squashed” by the Yankee, military-industrial complex that marched southward on the orders of mighty Abe and continued to march, slaughter, and conquer through the Indian Wars of the late 19th century, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War of 1898, and two world wars all in the name of the perpeturation of democracy. That military-industrial complex is now dying a gasping breath, ready for the resurrection of real democracy in this later age to replace that represented by the Bonnie Blue Flag. It will happen too. We will have a better, more democratic America as a result.

Tks Uncle & Errol,
You know Napoleon said ” history is a bunch of lies made up by the victories.”
I don’t remember hearing about the Bonnie Blue Flag in school. It was only after I started studying & reading deeper about the War Between the States

You heard about it at a family reunion. I heard about it on this blog. Danny learned of it by reading more deeply into the very likely unofficial histories apart from the mainstream media and the schools. The point is that our Media, the fourth estate and the fourth branch of government, has not been truthful and forthcoming to the American people. Democracy is not possible, and it cannot survive with an untruthful media that uses history to advance its own agenda. This may change with the advent of the internet and of blogs like this one, but the media of the beginning and recent past of this republic has not been very supportive of a real democracy, which is likely the reason we do not have a real democracy today.