I take from this that there was a motto on the banner. If anyone knows more about it, I would certainly like to know what that motto was and can only assume from the meager description and timeframe that it was a First National pattern.

Bossier Volunteers – Co. D, 9th Louisiana Volunteers

Before taking steamer for New Orleans, a sumptuous dinner was given the Volunteers by Mrs. Cane, in her usual good natured hospitality; patriotic addresses were delivered by Messrs. Wesley P. Winans and Robert J. Looney, who spoke words of welcome and encouragement in behalf of the whole-souled and public-spirited citizens of Shreveport; a magnificent battle-flag was presented the company by Miss Mattie Maples, one of Bossier’s fair and accomplished daughters, who, in tendering the flag to the brave men who were soon to proudly bear it aloft in victory under the leadership of the immortal Stonewall Jackson, delivered the follow address:
Miss Mattie Maples’Address to the Bossier Volunteers, Delivered at Cane’s Landing on Thursday, June 13, 1861.
From the Bossier Banner of June 22, 1861.

Captain Randolph and Bossier Volunteers:

I come to-day as the representative of the ladies of our chivalrous parish to present you this beautiful banner. You have heard the Northern decree. You have heard the command to subjugate the Southern rebels. The tocsin of alarm has been sounded throughout the length and breadth of our happy land. The last link is broken – the tension is riven – and never again can the golden bonds be woven into one harmonious whole.. You have buckled on your armor, and stand before me to-day a company of brave and loyal men, prepared to defend your country from Northern invasion. There can be nothing so much regretted as the necessity. Yet we the women of the South, encourage you to go forth, to meet the enemy with unbroken front; to conquer or die. – They tell us we are weak; that they are strong. This strength is their boast – we boast our loyalty and bravery. Let not this discourage you. Remember the battle on Louisiana soil – the battle of Orleans, when gallant Andrew Jackson sent Packenham to his resting place beneath the willows, and his conquered army to their British homes. That was not an equal contest; yet ours was the just cause – and ours the victory. It is God who has said – “the battle is not always to the strong.” And although their forces may be double your own, what is a hireling’s bravery to a Southerner who is fighting for his liberty, his God, and his native land? For ages past, there was a banner starred and striped, bearing on its silken folds thirty-three stars on a field of blue. That flag proudly floated over a nation second to none on the face of this mighty globe. That flag was the emblem of American freedom and American independence. That flag was the symbol of our Nationality, we were taught to honor and venerate from infancy to womanhood and manhood. But it shall never come again to desecrate our soil; it shall never float over a Southern people. – Gone, and forever, all that endeared it to Southern hearts; we will tear it down and trample in the dust its dishonored folds. In its place we have this new banner born; and although in its infancy, it is even now in its strength and beauty, a terror to our foes, and an object of admiration to those who are viewing it at a distance, the leap of the stars as they leave the old, and circle around our field of blue.

Capt. Randolph, into your guardianship we commit the brave Volunteers. The pride of our parish – the light and joy of our homes – all this we give to you for Southern service. We fear not, for he who won a name and fame on Mexico’s bloody plains, will not prove recreant to the trust we yield. We are proud – and those brave men are proud of such a leader. Into your care, gallant standard-bearer, we consign this beautiful banner. In the thickest of the fight, bear it aloft, unfurl its undying colors. Let the invading army read its glittering motto, and know that the Bossier Volunteers have met them resolved on victory or death! If you should fall, let it enshroud you; you cannot have a winding sheet more glorious than the flag of your Southern Confederacy –

By all ye hope, by all ye love,
Be resolute and proud -
And make this flag a symbol high
Of triumph, or a shroud.

Originally published in Bossier Banner, June 22, 1861; reprinted Bossier Banner, April 19, 1894 and June 26, 1913