Copied from the Yahoo! Texas Civilian list. Posted August 2007 by Colleen Formby
From The New York Herald, Sunday Dec. 9, 1860:
"The Texas Secession Cockade: The cockade is the badge common to the citizens of the Southern States. The star is peculiar to Texians. The combination of the two emblems seems particularly appropriate to the times. Doubtless this badge will be generally adopted through Texas by those favoring resistance by State action to the principles of the black republican party".
Anyone seen one that sounds remotely like this?
Copied from the Yahoo! Texas Civilian list. Posted August 2007 by Vicki Betts
No photos, but...
[LAGRANGE, TX] STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT, February 21, 1861, p. 1, c. 4
The Boys with the Blue Cockade!
By Sallie Ada Reedy.
The South is our beautiful mother, and now,
While womanhood flits, like a gem in her crest;
The winds of the North shall not visit her brow,
Or wither [tear in paper] that blooms on her breast.
Her sons they are brave, and her daughters are dear,
And loyal the swords at her feet now laid;
And it were as a thing never born to know fear,
Are the hearts of the Boys with the Blue Cockade.
The South is our home, on each hearth is a flame
That was lit while our mothers were meekly at prayer,
And he who would quench it must daringly aim
His blow at the hearts who have kindled it there.
The stranger who crosses our threshold must come
In faith that a Southerner never betrayed;
For the South, the beautiful south is our home,
And her pride is the Boys with the Blue Cockade.
We've kindled her altars, and still to the end,
With hand clasped in hand we will stand by her fires,
As brothers united to guard and defend
The beautiful land where we've buried our sires,
No stranger of insolent foeman shall tread
O'er the graves where the dust of our heroes is laid.
Our mothers and daughters—our living and dead—
We'll trust to the Boys with the Blue Cockade.
Copied from the Yahoo! Texas Civilian list. Posted August 2007 by Vicki Betts
Silver star, evidently...
THE RANCHERO [Corpus Christi, TX], December 1, 1860, p. 2, c. 4
The News says a Lone Star rifle company, numbering nearly one hundred young men, has been organized in Galveston, and that the old artillery company is also being reorganized, to be composed of some of the older citizens. Many citizens are wearing the blue cockade, surmounted by metalic five-pointed stars.
The Telegraph notices the appearance of the blue cockade on the streets of Houston, worn by numbers of citizens, and gives the following descrïption of it:
It consist [sic] of a neat blue rosette, pinned to the hat, having a silver five-pointed star in the centre. It means that the wearers pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to resistance to abolition encroachments, and that theyc an see no way of successful resistance but in the withdrawal of their State from the Union.
A movement is on foot for the organization of an artillery company.
Copied from the Yahoo! Texas Civilian list. Posted August 2007 by Vicki Betts
Variations.
DALLAS HERALD, December 5, 1860, p. 3, c. 2
Many of our citizens appear on the streets of Dallas wearing the cockade of our national colors, blue ribbon with a golden star. Some wear cockades of red. An aged farmer said in our presence that "he wanted to wear it over his heart and in front, that all the world might see it and know his position." He would wear it with more pride than the "Cross of the Legion of Honor.". . . .
Copied from the Yahoo! Texas Civilian list. Posted August 2007 by Annette Bethke
Couldn't find anything specific to Texas but I would
assume that it would have looked similar to other
states' cockades including the button in the middle.
Texas CW buttons looked like this:
http://www.civilwarpreservations.com/catdet.asp?TargetItem=RR305&CategoryType=Buttons
Copied from the Yahoo! Texas Civilian list. Posted August 2007 by Capt Dusty
I wonder how many cockades were turned to black crepe after the Battle of Pittsburgh Landing and the siege of Corinth? Would they still be wearing these pre and early war decorations this late? Remember the concern over the possible draft, lack of consumer goods, inflation, and, finally, concerns over the security of the borders of the state.
Not trying to ruin a good thing but just a valid question? Just was the feelings about the war in this time period of September 1862?...........
Copied from the Yahoo! Texas Civilian list. Posted August 2007 by Vicki Betts
I think cockades were definitely a late 1860, early 1861 thing. They were, after all, usually called secession cockades. Tennesseean Sam Watkins, in _Co. Aytch_, was very surprised to see them when he moved north with the Confederate army into Kentucky in 1862. He said he hadn't seen any in a long time.
Copied from the Yahoo! Texas Civilian list. Posted August 2007 by Colleen Formby
Do any of you own the book " Texas Civil War artifacts : a photographic guide to the physical culture of Texas Civil War soldiers"?
I am wondering if it shows any of the "Lone Star Cockades" in there.
There are lots of separate stars--stars with no holes, stars with one hole, stars with two holes, stars with remains of wire attachments, stars with pin backs, stars embossed on pre-war shako hat buttons, stars in circles, stars in shields, stars to go on straps, engraved stars, stars and crescents. Nice stars, crude stars. Stars on things, like hats and cap boxes and
buckles and buttons.
But no cockades.
Vicki Betts
but it's interesting that there are notations about this one, and yet the CW Museum doesn't have one, and at least from what I can tell, no pictures in books that you would think would have them...this one is elusive!
Colleen Formby
From The New York Herald, Sunday Dec. 9, 1860:
"The Texas Secession Cockade: The cockade is the badge common to the citizens of the Southern States. The star is peculiar to Texians. The combination of the two emblems seems particularly appropriate to the times. Doubtless this badge will be generally adopted through Texas by those favoring resistance by State action to the principles of the black republican party".
Anyone seen one that sounds remotely like this?
Copied from the Yahoo! Texas Civilian list. Posted August 2007 by Vicki Betts
No photos, but...
[LAGRANGE, TX] STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT, February 21, 1861, p. 1, c. 4
The Boys with the Blue Cockade!
By Sallie Ada Reedy.
The South is our beautiful mother, and now,
While womanhood flits, like a gem in her crest;
The winds of the North shall not visit her brow,
Or wither [tear in paper] that blooms on her breast.
Her sons they are brave, and her daughters are dear,
And loyal the swords at her feet now laid;
And it were as a thing never born to know fear,
Are the hearts of the Boys with the Blue Cockade.
The South is our home, on each hearth is a flame
That was lit while our mothers were meekly at prayer,
And he who would quench it must daringly aim
His blow at the hearts who have kindled it there.
The stranger who crosses our threshold must come
In faith that a Southerner never betrayed;
For the South, the beautiful south is our home,
And her pride is the Boys with the Blue Cockade.
We've kindled her altars, and still to the end,
With hand clasped in hand we will stand by her fires,
As brothers united to guard and defend
The beautiful land where we've buried our sires,
No stranger of insolent foeman shall tread
O'er the graves where the dust of our heroes is laid.
Our mothers and daughters—our living and dead—
We'll trust to the Boys with the Blue Cockade.
Copied from the Yahoo! Texas Civilian list. Posted August 2007 by Vicki Betts
Silver star, evidently...
THE RANCHERO [Corpus Christi, TX], December 1, 1860, p. 2, c. 4
The News says a Lone Star rifle company, numbering nearly one hundred young men, has been organized in Galveston, and that the old artillery company is also being reorganized, to be composed of some of the older citizens. Many citizens are wearing the blue cockade, surmounted by metalic five-pointed stars.
The Telegraph notices the appearance of the blue cockade on the streets of Houston, worn by numbers of citizens, and gives the following descrïption of it:
It consist [sic] of a neat blue rosette, pinned to the hat, having a silver five-pointed star in the centre. It means that the wearers pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to resistance to abolition encroachments, and that theyc an see no way of successful resistance but in the withdrawal of their State from the Union.
A movement is on foot for the organization of an artillery company.
Copied from the Yahoo! Texas Civilian list. Posted August 2007 by Vicki Betts
Variations.
DALLAS HERALD, December 5, 1860, p. 3, c. 2
Many of our citizens appear on the streets of Dallas wearing the cockade of our national colors, blue ribbon with a golden star. Some wear cockades of red. An aged farmer said in our presence that "he wanted to wear it over his heart and in front, that all the world might see it and know his position." He would wear it with more pride than the "Cross of the Legion of Honor.". . . .
Copied from the Yahoo! Texas Civilian list. Posted August 2007 by Annette Bethke
Couldn't find anything specific to Texas but I would
assume that it would have looked similar to other
states' cockades including the button in the middle.
Texas CW buttons looked like this:
http://www.civilwarpreservations.com/catdet.asp?TargetItem=RR305&CategoryType=Buttons
Copied from the Yahoo! Texas Civilian list. Posted August 2007 by Capt Dusty
I wonder how many cockades were turned to black crepe after the Battle of Pittsburgh Landing and the siege of Corinth? Would they still be wearing these pre and early war decorations this late? Remember the concern over the possible draft, lack of consumer goods, inflation, and, finally, concerns over the security of the borders of the state.
Not trying to ruin a good thing but just a valid question? Just was the feelings about the war in this time period of September 1862?...........
Copied from the Yahoo! Texas Civilian list. Posted August 2007 by Vicki Betts
I think cockades were definitely a late 1860, early 1861 thing. They were, after all, usually called secession cockades. Tennesseean Sam Watkins, in _Co. Aytch_, was very surprised to see them when he moved north with the Confederate army into Kentucky in 1862. He said he hadn't seen any in a long time.
Copied from the Yahoo! Texas Civilian list. Posted August 2007 by Colleen Formby
Do any of you own the book " Texas Civil War artifacts : a photographic guide to the physical culture of Texas Civil War soldiers"?
I am wondering if it shows any of the "Lone Star Cockades" in there.
There are lots of separate stars--stars with no holes, stars with one hole, stars with two holes, stars with remains of wire attachments, stars with pin backs, stars embossed on pre-war shako hat buttons, stars in circles, stars in shields, stars to go on straps, engraved stars, stars and crescents. Nice stars, crude stars. Stars on things, like hats and cap boxes and
buckles and buttons.
But no cockades.
Vicki Betts
but it's interesting that there are notations about this one, and yet the CW Museum doesn't have one, and at least from what I can tell, no pictures in books that you would think would have them...this one is elusive!
Colleen Formby
