Variations on "The Bonnie Blue Flag"
This file appears in: "Bonnie Blue Flag:" The Most Dangerous Song of the Civil War
This popular tune became reworked in various ways throughout the war. This sheet music, also published by Blackmar, was printed in 1862 and provides a more complex rendition of the popular patriotic tune.
Courtesy of the Collections of the Louisiana State Museum
This file appears in: "Bonnie Blue Flag:" The Most Dangerous Song of the Civil War
"Bonnie Blue Flag:" The Most Dangerous Song of the Civil War
The popularity of sheet music in the United States had reached its peak by the start of the Civil War. Well before the development of recording and broadcasting technology, the commercial music…