Tennessee
I'll end with one I love - a beautiful silk velvet cockade preserved in a lady's scrapbook. The note with it says, "Secession Cockade. Made by my mother and worn by me." Those simple poignant words remind us that cockades were not nass-produced, nor was the design mandated by any state or organization.
Cockades were hand-sewn by courageous mothers, wives and sweethearts. They were worn with bravery in the face of insults, aggression and even threat of arrest. It took a gutsy, resolute individual to pin one on, making a principled stand in the face of opposition.
That's the spirit of the Confederacy that is honored and remembered every Confederate History Month.