"The Bonnie Blue Flag"
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The Bonnie Blue Flag is pictured on the left of this 1861 print of Harry Macarthy's Confederate anthem. It also demonstrates the connection between "The Bonnie Blue Flag," Harry Macarthy, and his Personation Concerts in New Orleans. On the bottom, you can see that the sheet music was published by A.E. Blackmar & Bro., one of the most prolific sheet music publishers in New Orleans in the nineteenth century.
Library of Congress, Music Division.
This file appears in: Harry Macarthy and the Academy of Music
Harry Macarthy and the Academy of Music
In August 1861, Harry Macarthy, also known as "The Arkansas Comedian," arrived in New Orleans to perform a three-month stint of "Personation Concerts" at the Academy of Music, a then popular play house located on St. Charles…