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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.
Confederate flag made out of flowers at the Confederate Statue in Jasper, Alabama, 2010. As a result of these varying perceptions, there have been several political controversies surrounding using the Confederate battle flag in Southern state flags, at sporting events, at Southern universities, and on public buildings. [54]
Because of its depiction in the 20th-century and popular media, many people consider the rectangular battle flag with the dark blue bars as being synonymous with "the Confederate Flag", but this flag was never adopted as a Confederate national flag. [255] The "Confederate Flag" has a color scheme similar to that of the most common Battle Flag ...
In the days and weeks that followed, two more displays of Confederate flags and signs went up at two other locations in Harrison, a city of 13,000 about 20 miles west of Cincinnati. TV news crews ...
The "Bonnie Blue flag" was a banner associated at various times with the Republic of Texas, the short-lived Republic of West Florida, and the Confederate States of America at the start of the American Civil War in 1861. It consists of a single, five-pointed white star on a blue field.
This week's fatal shooting at a historic black church in Charleston has sparked a controversy over a long-held tradition in South Carolina of flying the flag of the Confederacy near the state capitol.
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 ...
The Van Dorn battle flag. The Van Dorn battle flag was a Confederate battle flag with a red field depicting a white crescent moon in the canton and thirteen white stars; and trimmed with gold cord. In February, 1862, Confederate general Earl Van Dorn ordered that all units under his command use this flag as their regimental colors. [1]