By Dan. E. Townsend, Richmond Dispatch, June 30, 1862.

When clouds of oppression o’ershaded
The banner that liberty bore,
Bright stars from the galaxy faded,
The day of its splendor was o’er;
Those stars, in a fresh constellation,
A sky in the South now adorn;
And blazon throughout all creation
That freedom’s new banner is born.
For the land that’s richest in beauty,
The homestead of justice and right,
Whose sons are the foremost in duty,
Whose daughters are peerless and bright:
For brave hearts in battle defending
The honor and truth of our cause;
For our trust in victorious ending,
The welkin rings out its huzzas.
Our lives and our fortunes enlisted,
Our honor, our hopes, and our prayers,
Upholding the act that resisted
The wrong of a series of years.
May the Father in Heaven approve us,
In this the most sacred of wars;
May his hand, to protect, be above us
While cheering the Stars and the Bars.

THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG.

By Harry Macarthy.

[The music of this song can be procured of the Oliver Ditson Co., Boston, Mass., owners of the copyright.]

We are a band of brothers, and native to the soil,
Fighting for our liberty, with treasure, blood and toil;
And when our rights were threatened, the cry rose near and far,
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag, that bears a Single Star!
Chorus.—Hurrah! Hurrah! for Southern Rights, Hurrah!
Hurrah! for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star!
As long as the Union was faithful to her trust,
Like friends and like brethren kind were we and just;
But now when Northern treachery attempts our rights to mar,
We hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star.
Chorus.
First, gallant South Carolina nobly made the stand;
Then came Alabama, who took her by the hand;
Next, quickly Mississippi, Georgia and Florida,
All raised on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star.
Chorus.

Ye men of valor, gather round the banner of the right,
Texas and fair Louisiana, join us in the fight;
Davis, our loved President, and Stephens, statesman rare,
Now rally round the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star.
Chorus.

“The Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star.”