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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.
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The court's construction was funded by the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors and the Los Angeles County Council of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in the 1960s. [1] [2] It was created in 1971. [3] The following flags are displayed: [4] [5] Taunton “Liberty and Union” Flag; Bunker Hill Battle Flag; Liberty Tree Flag; Moultrie Flag ...
In addition, many military units had their own regimental flags they would carry into battle. In 2007, one of six known Bonnie Blue flags from the Civil War era was sold at auction for US$47,800. The flag had been carried by the Confederate 3rd Texas Cavalry, and later exhibited as part of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. [8]
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.
A new flag was designed. In a non-binding 2004 referendum, 73% of the voters expressed a preference for the new flag, based on the first Confederate national flag, the Stars and Bars, over the 2001 design. (A return to the 1956 flag with the Confederate battle flag, desired by some, was not on the ballot.)
Amazon's sales of Confederate flags have skyrocketed by more than 3,000% in the last 24 hours. People are snatching up the flags online after several major retailer — including eBay, Wal-Mart ...
English: Southern Cross format Confederate “Battle Flag,” a.k.a., Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia Note: In square format it came to be called “the battle flag”, partly because it was carried in this format, for that purpose, by Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia, as well as by Beauregard’s Army and others...