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The inspiration for Alabama's flag is not known. Many have noted that a saltire also appears in flags used decades earlier by the Confederate States of America, a group of states, including Alabama, that declared secession and warred against the United States during the American Civil War. No documentation in the legislative records indicates ...
State Pre-1800s 1800s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Current State Alabama / 1861 1865 1895 Alabama: Alaska: 1927 Alaska: Arizona: 1917 Arizona: Arkansas: 1913 1923 1924 2011 Arkansas: California: 1911 California: Colorado: 1907 1911 1964 Colorado ...
Coat of arms of Alabama Flag of the Governor since 1939. Alabama Coat of Arms (1923) and the State Seal include the Confederate Battle Flag. Alabama State Flag (1895) The Alabama Department of Archives and History found in 1915 that the flag was meant to "preserve in permanent form some of the more distinctive features of the Confederate battle ...
Most U.S. state flags were designed and adopted between 1893 and World War I. [1] The most recently adopted state flag is that of Minnesota, adopted on May 11, 2024, while the most recently adopted territorial flag is that of the Northern Mariana Islands, adopted on July 1, 1985.
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.
Alabama was central to the Civil War, with the secession convention at Montgomery, the birthplace of the Confederacy, inviting other slaveholding states to form a southern republic, during January–March 1861, and to develop new state constitutions. The 1861 Alabaman constitution granted citizenship to current U.S. residents, but prohibited ...
Constitution of the Confederate States; Flag of Alabama; Flags of the Confederate States of America; Flags of the U.S. states and territories; George Doherty Johnston; Hilliard's Legion; List of Confederate states by date of admission to the Confederacy; List of flags with reverses that differ from the obverse; List of former sovereign states
On the north side of Capitol Hill there is a monument dedicated to Alabama's more than 122,000 Confederate veterans of the Civil War, known as the Confederate Memorial Monument. The 88-foot (27 m) tall monument was dedicated on December 7, 1898, although it had been planned as early as November 1865. [ 1 ]