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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 50th anniversary reunion at Gettysburg in 1913 was a turning point in obtaining national acceptance of the flag and other Confederate symbols. The flag appears prominently in The Birth of a Nation (1915), a highly successful and influential film which promotes eugenics. Woodrow Wilson made this the first ever film to air at the White House ...
Nicola Marschall (March 16, 1829 – February 24, 1917) was a German-American artist who supported the Confederate cause during the American Civil War. He designed the original Confederate flag, the Stars and Bars, [1] as well as the official grey uniform of the Confederate army. [2]
The traditional Confederate battle flag never flew over Mississippi as a state flag during the Civil War. Mississippi's flag in that era featured a magnolia tree as its dominant symbol.
English: Rectangular battle flag of the Army of Tennessee, Confederate States of America. Also the jack of the Confederate States Navy Note: Although the rectangular version of the Army of Tennessee and the Navy Jack of the Confederate States were in a 2:3 or 3:4 ratio, the most common version of this flag today is the 3:5 ratio.
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View Article The post Confederate symbols prove difficult to remove in many states appeared first on TheGrio. Just past the gate at an entrance to the Texas Capitol, a large monument honoring the ...
In the wake of a massacre at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, a bipartisan mix of officials across Southern states are calling for the removal of Confederate flags and other symbols ...