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Secession badge

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104: 119: 92: 80: 68: 39:, was a decorative flower made of fabric or ribbon that was used to signal support for the secession of slave states from the United States during the sectional crisis that began in 1858. The badge was often attached with a pin that bore symbolic significance, such as a palmetto for South Carolina. One memoirist recalled of the early days of the American Civil War, "...it was not uncommon to meet on Pennsylvania Avenue a defiant Southerner openly wearing a Virginia or South Carolina secession badge." In December 1860, the 20: 273: 279: 103: 118: 91: 79: 67: 347: 24: 53:, and "One solitary secession cockade made its appearance during the evening, wearing a lonesome aspect, and evidently pining for sympathy that was not forthcoming." 323: 211: 184: 157: 342: 46: 110: 174: 147: 228: 201: 289: 316: 244: 19: 309: 41: 207: 180: 153: 293: 272: 336: 97:
Virginian in volunteer uniform with secession badge (Liljenquist collection, LOC)
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Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America
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Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861--1865
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All that Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South
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Missouri Minutemen
Washington Star
Brown's Hotel
Fort Sumter
"Confederate with secession cockade" (Southern Methodist University libraries)
Unidentified young boy wearing secession badge and holding a rifle
Virginian in volunteer uniform with secession badge (Liljenquist collection, LOC)
Private Peter S. Arthur of Company B, 11th Virginia Infantry Regiment
11th Virginia Infantry Regiment
Unidentified artilleryman wearing secession badge
Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America
ISBN
978-0-608-41363-1
All that Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South
ISBN
978-0-19-517628-5
Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861--1865
ISBN
978-0-8071-3579-2
Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
"Down town last night"
Flag of United States
Hourglass icon
history of the United States
stub
expanding it
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t
e

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