Dixie (song)
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"Dixie", also known as "Dixie's Land", "I Wish I Was in Dixie", and by other titles, is a song first published in 1860 that is strongly associated with the Southern United States. It was not a folk so
I Wish I Was In Dixie's Land, 1860
"I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land" sheet music
Lew and Ben Snowden on banjo and fiddle in the second-story gable of their home, Clinton, Knox County, Ohio, c. 1890s
Detail from a playbill of the Bryant's Minstrels depicting the first part of a walkaround, dated December 19, 1859
The Bonnie Blue Flag
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"The Bonnie Blue Flag", also known as "We Are a Band of Brothers", is an 1861 marching song associated with the Confederate States of America. The words were written by the entertainer Harry McCarthy,
Dixie (song)
…became popular throughout the country. During the American Civil War, it was adopted as a de facto national anthem of the Confederacy, along with "The Bonnie Blue Flag" and "God Save the South". New versions appeared at this time that more explicitly tied the song to the events of the Civil War. Ohio-born minstrel…
The Bonnie Blue Flag Project Gutenberg e Text 21566
![Dora Allison, Little Miss Bonnie Blue.[clarification needed]From the United States Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division. Photo by Charl](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Dora_Allison%2C_Little_Miss_Bonnie_Blue%2C_the_light_of_the_Confederacy_-_Rees._LCCN2012646133.jpg/500px-Dora_Allison%2C_Little_Miss_Bonnie_Blue%2C_the_light_of_the_Confederacy_-_Rees._LCCN2012646133.jpg)
Dora Allison, Little Miss Bonnie Blue.[clarification needed]From the United States Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division. Photo by Charles R. Rees