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The flags of the Confederate States of America have a history of three successive designs during the American Civil War. The flags were known as the "Stars and Bars", used from 1861 to 1863; the "Stainless Banner", used from 1863 to 1865; and the "Blood-Stained Banner", used in 1865 shortly before the Confederacy 's dissolution.
Flag of the Confederate States of America, banner consisting of seven white stars on a blue canton with a field of alternating red and white stripes. The stars represent the seven seceded states of the U.S. Deep South.
The winning design, dubbed the “Stars and Bars,” had three horizontal stripes, two red and one white, and a blue box containing white stars in the upper lefthand corner. That flag caused...
The commanders of the Confederate army in Virginia (then known at the Army of the Potomac) sought a distinctive emblem as an alternative to the Confederacy’s first national flag—the Stars and Bars—to serve as a battle flag.
The flag that many now consider the “Confederate flag” is just one of many designs the Confederacy used over its four-year tenure—there were three state flags and numerous battle flags. The...
The very first national flag of the Confederacy was designed by Prussian artist Nicola Marschall in Marion, Alabama. [1] The Stars and Bars flag was adopted March 4, 1861 in Montgomery, Alabama and raised over the dome of that first Confederate Capitol. Marschall also designed the Confederate uniform.
July 9, 2015 12 AM PT. The flag is a symbol of slavery and white supremacy to many but a matter of states' rights and Southern heritage for others. Here's how the controversial flag has...
South Carolina and Alabama raised it over their capitols in the early 1960s. Today there are seven states that use some kind of Confederate iconography or echo in their state flags, but only Mississippi’s flag incorporates the actual Confederate battle flag design.
The variety of designs and shapes pictured in the collection of captured Confederate battle flags returned to southern states several years after the war, indicates that Confederate commanders exercised the option of designing and adopting their own flags.
Many Americans still use the flag personally, and some state flags arguably include Confederate flag designs. Many Americans consider use of the Confederate flag to be a matter of pride in their southern heritage, a symbol of state power, and an exercise of free speech.