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Before 1861, Mississippi lacked a flag. When the State Convention at the Capitol in Jackson declared its secession from the United States ("the Union") on January 9, 1861, [19] near the start of the American Civil War, spectators in the balcony handed a Bonnie Blue flag down to the state convention delegates on the convention floor, [20] and one was raised over the state capitol building in ...
Mississippi state flag at the Old Courthouse, Vicksburg; Camera manufacturer: Canon: Camera model: Canon EOS 6D: Author: Kenneth C. Zirkel: Exposure time: 1/125 sec (0.008) F-number: f/9: ISO speed rating: 100: Date and time of data generation: 11:26, 15 October 2022: Lens focal length: 22 mm: Latitude: 32° 21′ 7.94″ N: Longitude: 90° 52 ...
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According to Clay Moss, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Vexillological Research Volunteer on June 21, 2015 at the Flags of the World website, this flag is likely a post-war flag used by United Confederate Veterans units, as it does not conform to the 1861 language describing adoption of a new secessionist flag: "A Flag of white ...
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. The flag of the District of Columbia was adopted in
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 ...
Mississippi: 1861 1865 1894 1996 2001 2021 Mississippi: Missouri: 1913 Missouri: Montana: 1905 1981 Montana: Nebraska: 1963 Nebraska: Nevada: 1905 1915 1929 1991 Nevada: New Hampshire: 1909 1931 New Hampshire: New Jersey: 1896 New Jersey: New Mexico: 1915 1920 New Mexico: New York: 1778 1901 2020 New York: North Carolina: 1861 1885 1991 North ...
Republican former governor Phil Bryant on Thursday advocated replacing the Confederate symbol in the Mississippi state flag with another design.