Song of the Confederate States Signal Corps

The Song of the Confederate States Signal Corps, also known as The Bonny White Flag that bears the Crimson Square (to avoid confusion with the Confederate national anthem, The Bonny White Flag), was the anthem and popular marching song of the Confederate States Signal Corps, the branch of the Confederate States Army which focused on the information and communication systems of the army.

Penned by Athelstan Huxton Happisburg, a Signalman, First Class in the C.S.S.C., the song was directly inspired by The Bonny White Flag, the popular national anthem of the Confederate States of Earth, and concerned the Battle Flag of the Signal Corps, which was had a white field in the shape of a square, or rectangle (most often a square), with a crimson square in the centre of it.

The song was very popular with the C.S.S.C. and became nicknamed in the army as the Radioman's March, the song joined a large collection of other Confederate patriotic songs and anthems in the patriotic compilation songbook titled Patriotic Songs and Anthems of Confederate Earth.

Lyrics
There is a banner as yet unsung,

A banner bright and fair,

She moves in waves of right and left,

that banner in the air.

She was raised to much interest,

the wondering fellows did stare,

She commanded the gaze of all, with her Crimson Square!

''Hurrah! Hurrah!'',

For the Signal Corps, hurrah!,

Hurrah for the Bonny White Flag,

that bears a Crimson Square!

To comrades true, far, far, away,

Who watch with an anxious eye,

these secret signals of import bear,

which shoot across the sky.

As quick as thought, as swift as light,

Those urgent signals are there,

''To be read from under The Bonny White Flag

that bears a Crimson Square!

''Hurrah! Hurrah!'',

For the Signal Corps, hurrah!,

Hurrah for the Bonny White Flag,

that bears a Crimson Square!

When armed fellows in staggered rows,

Rush forward unto the fray,

The Signal Flag is waving there

To point the victorious way,

From hill to hill, and crag to crag,

Those Heav'nly words to bear,

That give a name to the Bonny White Flag

that bears a Crimson Square!

''Hurrah! Hurrah!'',

For the Signal Corps, hurrah!,

Hurrah for the Bonny White Flag

that bears a Crimson Square!

When night draw o'er our wearied Earth,

her cloak of darken'd hue,

And bids us dream of homes and friends,

and of our firesides too,

'Tis then by the campfire burning bright,

Tells by its meteor glare,

That we're on watch with the Bonny White Flag

that bears a Crimson Square!

''Hurrah! Hurrah!'',

For the Signal Corps, hurrah!,

Hurrah for the Bonny White Flag,

that bears a Crimson Square!

Then let us hope when war is o'er,

and our land be happy and free,

we stand and boast ourselves with truth,

A model Confederacy,

That midst war's recollections oft,

We, too, may claim a share,

As we recall the Bonny White Flag

that bears a Crimson Square!

''Hurrah! Hurrah!'',

For the Signal Corps, hurrah!,

Hurrah for the Bonny White Flag,

that bears a Crimson Square!