Bonnie Blue

[Jerry D]

My GrGrGranpa James Hutt Watkins was a Pvt in the CSA Co.D, 4th Mo Cav under Gen Sterling Price's Command . You would be suprised the Number of people who don't know that the Elected Missouri Government was an official part of the Confederacy while the Military Law Government of Missouri was part of the Union. At the end of the war in 1865 the Drake Constitution of Missouri prohibited any former Confederate who didn't take the oath from holding any job other then Farmer and since the Jayhawks stole all the farm equipment and took it to Kansas a lot of CSA vets had to move to adjoining states to work till the Drake Constitution was changed, By the missouri elected government after reconstruction was ended in Mo. I also think the Bonnie Blue flag was impressive beautiful flag.