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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 Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway [1] republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 5, 1865. [8]
The Flags of the Confederacy: An Illustrated History. Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-565-54109-2. OCLC 30780284. Documentary History of the Flag and Seal of the Confederate States of America, 1861-'65. Compiled by Raphael P. Thian. Washington. 1880.
From 1985 to late 2020, the town of Remington, Virginia, had a Confederate flag in its municipal seal. [178] [179] A variation of the seal, Confederate flag included, appeared on their police uniform shoulder patches. [180] [181] The Remington town council voted to remove the Confederate flag from its seal on July 20, 2020. [182]
The 28th Virginia battle flag is a Confederate battle flag that belonged to the 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment.Captured by the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, the flag was brought to Minnesota and exhibited at the state's capitol for several years before passing into the permanent collection of the Minnesota Historical Society after 1896 where it has remained since.
Residents on docks waved flags and called out "four more years" to the boats. Michelle Hirstus, who was the boat parade's organizer shrugged off criticisms of Trump and, by extension, his supporters.
The removal of Confederate statues happened in many southern states and that push is now expanding to street names. Two counties in Northern Virginia are contending with those changes now. (Aug. 9)
English: Southern Cross format Confederate “Battle Flag,” a.k.a., Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia Note: In square format it came to be called “the battle flag”, partly because it was carried in this format, for that purpose, by Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia, as well as by Beauregard’s Army and others...