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Use: National flag : Proportion: 2:3: Adopted: March 4, 1865: Design: A white rectangle, one-and-a-half times as wide as it is tall, a red vertical stripe on the far right of the rectangle, a red quadrilateral in the canton, inside the canton is a blue saltire with white outlining, with thirteen white five-pointed stars of equal size inside the saltire.
The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway [1] republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865. [8] The Confederacy was composed of eleven U.S. states that declared secession and warred ...
The Confederate flag is a controversial symbol for many Americans today. A 2011 Pew Research Center poll revealed that 30% of Americans had a "negative reaction" when "they saw the Confederate flag displayed". [46] According to the same poll, 9% of Americans had a positive reaction. A majority (58%) did not react.
The Constitution of the Confederate States was the supreme law of the Confederate States of America. It superseded the Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States, the Confederate State's first constitution, in 1862. [1] It remained in effect until the end of the American Civil War in 1865. The original Provisional Constitution is ...
Alma mater. U.S. Military Academy. Ambrose Powell Hill Jr. (November 9, 1825 – April 2, 1865) was a Confederate general who was killed in the American Civil War. He is usually referred to as A. P. Hill to differentiate him from Confederate general Daniel Harvey Hill, who was unrelated. A native Virginian, Hill was a career United States Army ...
This article is a list of national symbols of the Confederate States of America enacted through legislation. Upon its independence (adoption of the Constitution for the Provisional Government of the Confederate States ) on February 8, 1861, [ 1 ] and subsequent foundation of the permanent government on February 22, 1862, [ 2 ] the Confederate ...
Madison County School Board that based on Tinker and other Supreme Court rulings, the school board could not ban Confederate flag T-shirts while other "controversial racial and political symbols" like the "X" symbol associated with Malcolm X and the African American Muslim movement were permitted. [18] In Defoe v.
Banner. Design. A dark blue banner charged with a white star. The " Bonnie Blue flag " was a banner associated at various times with the Republic of Texas, the short-lived Republic of West Florida, and the Confederate States of America at the start of the American Civil War in 1861. It consists of a single, five-pointed white star on a blue field.