Secession Cockades and Patriotic Cockades--!?

[Huck]

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On CJ Daley Old newsletters there was an article about cockades "The Blue Cockade & South Carolina Indorsed. . .by Brian Koenig" http://www.cjdaley.com/newsletter/Mar06.htm

[Championhilz]

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I thought I would share this image from my personal collection of Enos Frost, who served in Company A, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery. Tucked behind the image was a piece of paper with a lock of hair stitched to it in the shape of a heart. Written beside it was "Enos Frost's Hair - Elvira Beach, Princeville, Illinois." Frost married Beach in 1866 after returning from the war.

[csuniforms]

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Hello and Good Morning-- Thank you all for your support on cockades... This is a beautiful photo of a true "Union Man" or "Wide-Awake Republican". Thank you for posting the picture. I still need some Palmetto for our Group to make up some Palmetto Cockades...

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Tom Arliskas

[johnconrad1987]

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For what it is worth, here is a photo of four palmetto cockades in the collection of the SC Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum. If you are heading to the Sumter 150th, pay them a visit and make a donation. They are having a tough go of it despite it being the 150th since the state of SC can't seem to put any value on anything these days.

[johnconrad1987]

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Tom,
Sorry, I'd love to help providing you with some materials for your cockades, but I'm not from the Lowcountry nor am I even in the state right now. If someone from the Tramp Brigade can't help you out, I'll see if I can't rustle some up.

[csuniforms]

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Hello, Thanks in advance. We have the hands just need the material for the Big Fort Sumter Blast.... An interesting note, most, (not Everybody) believed or hoped that there would not be any military action even with the firing on Fort Sumter. Lincoln's proclamation calling our 75,000 men to put down the Rebellion was a real shock to the Southern people. That is why they referred to the Civil War as the War of Northern Aggression on Lincoln's part.--
From Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen. Here's a quote from one of Louisa's letters to a friend in Kansas:

[Concord was] "a sight to behold. Everyone wears cockades where one can be stuck, flags flap over head like parti colored birds of prey."

Another everyone quote-- Louisa is probably exaggerating the point of "everyone" in Concord, Mass.-- but to her, it looks like everyone has on a cockade or is hanging the red-white-and blue from the front porch or window.

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Tom Arliskas

[csuniforms]

Re: Secession Cockades and Patriotic Cockades--!?

Hello, Thanks in advance. We have the hands just need the material for the Big Fort Sumter Blast.... An interesting note, most, (not Everybody) believed or hoped that there would not be any military action even with the firing on Fort Sumter. Lincoln's proclamation calling our 75,000 men to put down the Rebellion was a real shock to the Southern people. That is why they referred to the Civil War as the War of Northern Aggression on Lincoln's part.--
From Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen. Here's a quote from one of Louisa's letters to a friend in Kansas:

[Concord was] "a sight to behold. Everyone wears cockades where one can be stuck, flags flap over head like parti colored birds of prey."

Another everyone quote-- Louisa is probably exaggerating the point of "everyone" in Concord, Mass.-- but to her, it looks like everyone has on a cockade or is hanging the red-white-and blue from the front porch or window.

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Tom Arliskas

[csuniforms]

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Announcing another presentation of Secession Cockades and Patriotic cockades and clothing.

I will be giving another presentation on this subject on March 28, 2011 from 7 pm to 9 pm at the Wadsworth Library Building located on the Grounds of the Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee. This presentation will be in conjunction with our annual West Side Soldiers Aid Society Meeting. Admission is free and anyone who lives in the Milwaukee area is invited to attend. This is the same presentation that was given at the Midwest Civil War Civilian Conference in Springfield.

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Tom Arliskas