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The flag was lowered by Major Robert Anderson on April 13, 1861, when he surrendered Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, at the outset of the American Civil War. Anderson brought the flag to New York City for an April 20, 1861, patriotic rally, where it was flown from the equestrian statue of George Washington in Union Square.
The Anarchist black flag has been an anarchist symbol since the 1880s. Anarchists use either a plain black flag or a black flag with an "A" and an "O" around it, this symbol is a reference to a Proudhon quote "Anarchy is Order Without Power". [2] Since the Spanish Revolution of 1936, the diagonal red-and-black flag became more widely used.
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.
See also: Flags of the U.S. states and territories A 2.00 m × 1.70 m oil painting showing historical US flags. This is a list of flags in the United States describing the evolution of the flag of the United States, as well as other flags used within the United States, such as the flags of governmental agencies. There are also separate flags for embassies and ships. National flags Main article ...
Outline of the American Civil War; Postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States; Six flags over Texas; State of Kanawha; Texas; Timeline of sovereign states in North America; USS Merrimac (1864) Talk:American Civil War/Archive 6; Talk:American Civil War/Archive 8; Talk:Battle of Gettysburg/Archive 1
On July 1, 2000, the flag was removed from atop the State House by two students (one white and one black) from The Citadel; [157] Civil War re-enactors then raised a Confederate battle flag on a 30-foot pole on the front lawn of the Capitol [157] next to a slightly taller monument honoring Confederate soldiers [158] who died during the Civil ...
The U.S. Army surrendered Fort Sumter in the harbor Charleston, South Carolina, to Confederate forces on April 14, 1861. [2] The next day, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to serve for 90 days to reclaim federal property and to suppress the rebellion begun by the seven Deep South states which had formed the Confederate States of America (Confederacy). [2]
The following 76 pages use this file: Camp Fitzgerald; Camp Latham; Flag of the United States; List of Colorado Territory Civil War units; Talk:Flag of the United States/Archive 5