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The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the flag of the Confederate States shall be as follows: The width two-thirds of its length, with the union (now used as the battle flag) to be in width three-fifths of the width of the flag, and so proportioned as to leave the length of the field on the side of the union twice the ...
Cannon County, Tennessee, on July 17, 1993, adopted a county flag based on the Third National Flag of the Confederate States of America. The flag honors Nathan Bedford Forest and the events of July 13, 1862 when the Confederate officer led a successful raid on the then Union-held town of Murfreesboro, Tennessee freeing a number of citizens of ...
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.
The Confederate flag, or Confederate battle flag, has been flown in Oklahoma by various groups. The first iterations of the flag were used in 1861 by the Confederate States of America during the ...
A few days after that, a new, larger Confederate flag appeared atop the pole. This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: How Confederate flag displays upended lives in Harrison, Ohio ...
On Friday, April 26, the state of Florida officially honors the Floridians who took up arms in the Confederate battle against the United States of America in the Civil War. Confederate Memorial ...
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]
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 .