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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 flag consisted of a red field with a white star in the center. Inscribed above the star was the date May 20, 1775, the controversial date of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Inscribed below the star in a semi-circular form was the date May 20, 1861, which was the date North Carolina declared it had seceded from the Union.
1896 lithograph of the three Confederate national flags and the battle flag. Designed by William Porcher Miles, the chairman of the Flag and Seal Committee of the Confederate Provisional Congress, the flag now generally known as the "Confederate flag" was first proposed and rejected as the national flag in 1861.
v. t. e. During the American Civil War, North Carolina joined the Confederacy with some reluctance, mainly due to the presence of Unionist sentiment within the state. [2] A popular vote in February, 1861 on the issue of secession was won by the unionists but not by a wide margin. [3] This slight lean in favor of staying in the Union would shift ...
Confederate Memorial Day is one of three Confederate holidays — along with the birthdays of General Robert E. Lee and Confederate States President Jefferson Davis — still on the books in the ...
The color red emblematizes the maintenance of the Christian faith [3] Asturias. 1990–present. Alpha and Omega and the Victory Cross [4] Australia. 1903–present. Crosses of St. George, St. Andrew and St. Patrick [5] Bermuda. 1999–present.
Confederate monument-building has often been part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South. [12] [1] [13] According to the American Historical Association (AHA), the erection of Confederate monuments during the early 20th century was "part and parcel of the initiation of legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement across the South."
The Cross of Honor is in the form of a cross pattée suspended from a metal bar with space for engraving. It has no cloth ribbon. The obverse displays the Confederate battle flag placed on the center thereof surrounded by a wreath, with the inscription UNITED DAUGHTERS [of the] CONFEDERACY TO THE U. C. V. (the UCV is the United Confederate Veterans) on the four arms of the cross.