volunteers! Then here's to brave McClellan whom the army now reveres! He'll lead us on to victory, the Irish volunteers! Then here's to brave McClellan whom the army now reveres! He'll lead us on to victory, the Irish volunteers! Now fill your glasses up, my boys, a toast come drink with me May Erin's Harp and the Starry Flag united ever be; May traitors quake, and rebels shake, and tremble in their fears, When next they meet the Yankee boys and Irish volunteers! God bless the name of Washington! that name this land reveres; Success to Meagher and Nugent, and their Irish volunteers! God bless the name of Washington! that name this land reveres; Success to Meagher and Nugent, and their Irish volunteers! In popular culture In the 1939 movie Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler nicknames his child 'Bonnie Blue Butler' after Melanie Hamilton remarks that the child's eyes are as "blue as the Bonnie Blue flag". In the 1956 movie The Searchers, the song playing as John Wayne approaches at the beginning of the film is a slow version of "The Bonnie Blue Flag". In the 1959 movie The Horse Soldiers, "The Bonnie Blue Flag" is heard sung in the distance as a Confederate column passes on the other side of a river, and is also played by a company of Mississippi military school cadets, marching out to face the Union cavalry in an effort to delay their progress. (An incident loosely based on the unrelated charge of the Virginia Military Institute cadets at the Battle of New Market, 15 May 1864.) In the 1966 movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the chorus of "The Bonnie Blue Flag" is sung by a band of drunken revelers as they drop off Maria at her home in Santa Anna. The 1972 television series Appointment with Destiny made the error of portraying Union soldiers singing "The Bonnie Blue Flag." In the 1989 movie Glory, a portion of the Bonnie Blue Flag tune is played in the background by several Union soldiers as the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment are marching past. In the 1993 movie Gettysburg, the song is being played by a Confederate band as General James Longstreet (played by Tom Berenger) meets with General Robert E. Lee (played by Martin Sheen) on the first day of the battle - July 2, 1863. In the 1999 television movie The