Simple bumper sticker idea

[jgraz]

The Union Battle Flag



I'm sure someone has thought of this before, but flying the Union Battle Flag should be an indication that you stand against the treason, slavery, genocide and pure southern dumbfuckery that the Confederate flag represents.

[iamjoy]

1. I Like It! (eom)

[protest_dude]

2. It's sad, but neccessary!

Here's a proposed chant:

Racists Lost the Civil War! Racists Lost the Civil! Racists Lost the Civil War!

(Kind in the Kindergarten na na nana na cadence.)

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

3. cool, I"ll take 100

[Papagoose]

4. I like it

but it would go right over the rednecks' heads down here in Georgia.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

5. Don't you know? It's the NORTH'S fault the Confederates had to (and continue to)fight the Civil War

In fact, slavery wouldn't even exist in the United States if it weren't for the North!

[mindwalker_i]

6. Here's another one:

Baby On Board

[K8-EEE]

10. LOL! good one...

[happyslug]

7. Why not these Battle Flags???

These are actual Battle Flags flown by "Colored" troops raised in Pennsylvania. "Colored" troops were numbered on a national basis during the Civil War, while other state raised troops (i.e. White troops) were given state designation (i.e. 1st Pennsylvania, 2 Pennsylvania etc)


http://historiccamdencounty.com/ccnews55.shtml




http://explorepahistory.com/displayimage.php?imgId=397


http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/ct.htm

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart4b.html


http://www.3rdusct.org/

A African American Artist did these flags during the Civil War for the Colored Regiments raised in Pennsylvania

[Carnage251]

11. Where can i buy one of those

[happyslug]

12. That is a Good Question

"That is a Good Question" translated into everyday English means "I don't know". I first ran across these Battle Flags in a Book in the Johnstown Pa Public Library. All the Pictures of the Colored Regiments flags were in Black and White. Now the book was on ALL Pennsylvania Raised units. The White Unit flags had been kept in the State Capital since the end of the Civil War, but no one knows where the Colored Regimens flags ended up (Probably in some Soldier's grave, for his family could not think of a better place for a flag he had always had and no one else wanted, I am talking of 1900-1940 the height of segregation in the US).

I have NOT looked on line for the last few years but I see now others have posted some of these flags on line, AND someone used the 22nd US Colored Troops Flag as their own (It is the best of the African American Artist out of Philadelphia who did all of the Flags for the colored troops raised out of Pennsylvania). Places I would look for bumper stickers (or just a colored picture of the flag) would be as followed:

1. The Peter Mott House, where these pictures of the Unit was taken:
http://www.petermotthouse.org/museum.html

2. The "2nd NJ Brigade" is the re-creation headquarters unit for the 22nd USCT:
http://www.2dnjbrigade.org/index2.asp

Through you may just want to steal a picture of their flag and use it:

Please note the obverse is DIFFERENT from the front:

http://www.2dnjbrigade.org/photos/cat.asp?iCat=42


Lets add the Third USCT Flag (Motto: Rather die freemen than live to be slaves - 3rd United States Colored Troops):

http://loc.gov/pictures/item/98506817/

The 25th USCT:"Strike for God and country"

http://loc.gov/pictures/item/98506833/

The 45th Regiment, "One cause, One Country"

http://loc.gov/pictures/item/98506835/

The 127 USCT "We Will Prove ourselves men":

http://loc.gov/pictures/item/98506793/


http://popartmachine.com/studio/canvas.php

This Battle Flag is considered one of the best, if not the best, of all the Regimental Flags of the Civil War. The artist (David Bustill Bowser) who did it was well known at the time of the Civil War and hand painted these flags himself.

The 6th USCT, both front and obverse:

[happyslug]

13. I finally found a picture of the 24th USCT

The 24th USCT "Let soldiers in War be Citizens in Peace."

http://www.nps.gov/pete/forteachers/flags-of-the-civil-war.htm

[Bryn]

8. pure southern dumbfuckery?

Unrec


The Southerner

[jgraz]

14. Great example! Thanks!

:hi:

[Bryn]

15. You're one of those that paints all Southerners with the same brush

so what makes you? If you wish to discuss your beloved Union Battle flag at least leave "southern dumbfuckery" out.

No, I don't support honoring/displaying Confederate flag.

on edit: here you will see where slavery started and then spreaded. New York had slavery then did it away. The South wanted to hold on slavery for profits for their plantations (they were wrong and no different from The Corporation). That was back in 1700's and 1800's so quit blaming on today's Southerners as we had nothing to do with what happened in the past. Move on!

[jgraz]

16. Wrong again, Bob.

Though I will submit that there is a particular brand of dumbfuckery that is uniquely southern. That doesn't mean that all southerners are dumbfucks or that all dumbfucks are southerners. But EVERYONE who flies the Stars and Bars is a southern dumbfuck.

[gateley]

9. Wonderful idea! I'd slap that on my Lamborghini in a heartbeat. nt

[Heywood J]

17. Here you go:

Or, the alternate: