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Another significant flag is the "South Carolina Secession Flag"; the day after South Carolina seceded, a red flag with two tails, a large white star and a down-right facing crescent at the top by the flag staff was raised over the Charleston Custom House. It then spread to other cities as a symbol of secession. [9]
The chairman was William Porcher Miles, who was also the Representative of South Carolina in the Confederate House of Representatives. The Committee began a competition to find a new national flag, with an unwritten deadline being that a national flag had to be adopted by March 4, 1861, the date of President Lincoln's inauguration. This would ...
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union in December 1860, and was one of the founding member states of the Confederacy in February 1861. The bombardment of the beleaguered U.S. garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, is generally recognized as the first military engagement of the war.
Those soldiers built their fort with palmetto logs that withstood British Navy cannonballs and became such a symbol of strength that the palmetto tree was added to South Carolina’s flag in 1861.
Member of the C.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina's 2nd district; In office February 18, 1862 – March 18, 1865: Preceded by: New constituency: Succeeded by: Constituency abolished: Deputy from South Carolina to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States; In office February 4, 1861 – February 17, 1862: Preceded by: New ...
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6. Oklahoma. This is the flag with the best lessons for South Carolina. The story goes that a Boy Scout leader looking for the exact Native American imagery to replicate the Oklahoma state flag ...
South Carolina: 1775 1861 1910 1940 South Carolina: South Dakota: 1909 1963 1992 South Dakota: Tennessee: 1897 1905 Tennessee: Texas: 1836 1839 Texas: Utah: 1850 1903 1913 2011 2024 Utah: Vermont: 1770 1804 1837 1923 Vermont: Virginia: 1861 1865 1950 Virginia: Washington: 1923 1967 Washington: Washington D.C. 1924 1938 Washington D.C. West ...