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even into the 1950s and beyond,
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among historians like Frank Owsley and others.
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And its spirit, if you like,
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is there in the Confederate Anthem--
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not Dixie,
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but the other confederate Anthem, the Bonnie Blue Flag.
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You don't hear that as much,
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but there's a verse in Bonnie Blue Flag
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that the soldiers sang all the time.
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It goes like this, and listen for its ironies:
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"We are a band of brothers, native to the soil,
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fighting for the property we gained by honest toil."