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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 ...
Printable version; Page information; Get shortened URL ... English: Flag of Mississippi flown from 1861-1865 based off actual image of the flag https: ... Mississippi ...
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
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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 ...
Officially, the current flag of the State of Mississippi should have a fimbriation and the stars should point towards the top of the flag. The fimbriation should be the same width as the white bordering the canton (about 1/5 or 1/6 of the width of the blue bars that make up the saltire).