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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 first Confederate flag and five other nations that have had sovereignty over Texas (Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, United States) appear above one of the side entrances to the Capitol. They also appear on the reverse of the Seal of Texas, which is the subject of a floor mosaic in the Capitol Extension.
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.
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Still, various people have asserted over the decades that the design was drawn from the Confederate battle flag. [10] In 1900, the Montgomery Advertiser reported the flag was "a memory and a suggestion of the Confederate battle flag". [12] In 1906, a piece in the Birmingham Age-Herald stated the Alabama state flag "has no history woven into it ...
With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem — a symbol that’s widely condemned as racist. Republican Gov ...
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 ...
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 ...