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About Bonnie Blue Flag Chapter
Chapter Colors: Blue and White
General Motto: Think, Love, Pray, Dare and Live
Chapter Motto: Cheer for the Bonnie Blue that bears a single star
Chapter Flower: Confederate Rose
Chapter Bird: Blue Bird
Chapter Music: Bonnie Blue Flag
Chapter Poem: "Bonnie Blue", written by Robin Costa
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CHAPTER OFFICERS 2016 - 2018
President Llene Cox Mobile Bay District Officers from our Chapter
Vice President Margaret Lynn Ellis
Second Vice President Betty Holmes
Third Vice President Leigh Ann Byrd 2018 -- 2020
Treasurer Sandie Ziglar
Recording Secretary Belinda Roberts Director Sandie Ziglar
Registrar Llene Cox
Assistant Registrar Llene Cox
Historian Robin Costa
Military Recorder Llene Cox
Chaplain Linda Boykin
Parliamentarian Linda Boykin
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~ Why I Am a Daughter of the Confederacy ~
I am a Daughter of the Confederacy because I was born a Daughter of the Confederacy. A part of my heritage was that I came into this world with the blood of a soldier in my veins...a soldier who may have had nothing more to leave behind to me and to those who come after me except in heritage...a heritage so rich in honor and glory that it far surpasses any material wealth that could be mine. But it is mine, to cherish, to nurture and to make grace, and to pass along to those yet to come. I am, therefore, a Daughter of the Confederacy because it is my birthright.
I am a Daughter of the Confederacy because I have an obligation to perform. Like the man in the Bible, I was given a talent and it is my duty to do something about it. That is why I've joined a group of ladies whose birthright is the same as mine...an organization which has for its purpose the continuance and furtherance of the true history of the South and the ideals of southern womanhood as embodied in its Constitution.
I am a member of The United Daughters of the Confederacy because I feel it would greatly please my ancestor to know that I am a member. It would please him to know that I appreciate what he did and delight his soldier love to know that I do not consider the cause which he held so dear to be lost or forgotten. Rather, I am extremely proud of the fact that he was a part of it and was numbered among some of the greatest and bravest men which any such cause ever produced.
I am a Daughter of the Confederacy because I can no more help being a Daughter of the Confederacy than I can help being an American, and I feel that I was greatly favored by inheriting a birthright for both.
Written by Mary Nowlin Moon (Mrs. John)
A member of Kirkwood Otey Chapter 10, Lynchburg, Virginia
First read at a Chapter meeting on June 2, 1915
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Alabama Division of United Daughters of the Confederacy
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~aludc/
General Website of United Daughters of the Confederacy
http://hqudc.org/
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The Road to Elmira
Henry Burton Cline is my name
Love my Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Have a beautiful wife and two wonderful children
Planned to live in North Carolina the rest of my life.
Our lives forever changed on May 20, 1861.
Our beloved North Carolina joined the Confederacy.
Had to leave my family and do my duty.
May 10, 1862 began my journey with the 4th Calvary.
We all expected the war to be short lived.
But the war continued on and on, ever changing,
Even my horse grew tired of the daily grind.
I was very tired, dirty, hungry, and missed my family.
November 16, 1862, brought us to Kinston.
We were out-numbered and lost comrades.
We marched and rode on to Goldsborough Bridge.
We failed to save the bridge and lost more of our number.
We continued to Aldie and on to Fairfield
We lost more good comrades in arms.
Next came Brandy Station and Upperville.
We lost more than 500 good men.
Battle weary men had to fight again at Williamsport.
We grieved the loss of another 250 fellow fighters.
Little did we all understand that this campaign
Would be a big turning point for our precious Confederacy.
My life took a turn for the worse on June 13, 1864.
I was captured near City Point Railroad.
As a prisoner of war, I was moved from camp to camp
Then I landed in Point Lookout, Maryland.
From all of the stories we heard about Point Lookout
I guess I was one of the lucky ones.
My life at this camp was short lived.
They sent me to a very evil place in New York.
I was put on a train on July 9, 1864.
Three long days to arrive in Elmira.
On first look the camp was an ugly place.
Little did I know how mean the camp would become.
Food of all sorts was withheld from us.
Rats were sold by the camp keepers for our meat source.
The body of water close to the camp was smelly and dirty.
Most of the prisoners became sick and daily died.
My life on earth became more and more a daily struggle.
My body lost its ability to renew itself to survive.
Pneumonia finally took my life.
I was laid to rest in Elmira in April 1865.
My wife had to tell me goodbye through words on paper.
Never again did I get to see her beautiful face.
Goodbye my little children; be strong for mother.
One day, in God’s own time, we will meet again.
written by Llene Cox in honor
of her great, great, great uncle
Henry Burton Cline
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BROTHERS OF THE ALABAMA 24TH
It was in Mobile on October 18th, 1861
My brother and me signed up to go to war.
They put us in the infantry and gave us a gun.
The “South’s Cause” was what we’d be a fightin’ for.
I’ll tell you all my name is Dave Stokes.
And William was the name of my brother.
Now we’re just ole common country folks,
But we’ve always a lookin’ out for each other.
Company D of the Alabama 24th Regiment, Infantry,
Now that was a fightin’ bunch.
Most of us were from the back woods country,
And we banded together at once.
Some were brothers like Will and me,
And I guess I was one of the youngest.
It was just in this April past, I turned sixteen,
But in the heat of battle I grew up fast.
Old Captain Buck lead us through some fierce fights,
And we lost a lot a’ men at Murfreesboro.
There were times things got mighty tight,
And we felt like field rats in new plowed furrows.
At Chattanooga we moved back to the line.
Then on to Chicamauga in a grand forward movement.
After Mission Ridge we noticed the weather change signs.
But we made it to Dolton where we wintered in our tents.
From Crow Valley to Jonesboro we fought,
There we lost 300 good men from the regiment.
So many times we’re finished was our thought,
But on to Columbia, Franklin and Nashville we went.
As the struggles of our cause came to an end,
The history books will say it was all in vain.
Our people and land had so very much to mend.
Now only unity could bring comfort to all our pains.
I limped home with only a leg full of lead.
Brother Will didn’t come with me.
I came back to Alabama only wounded,
But he was killed at Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
written by Linda Boykin
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