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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.
This article is a list of national symbols of the Confederate States of America enacted through legislation.Upon its independence (adoption of the Constitution for the Provisional Government of the Confederate States) on February 8, 1861, [1] and subsequent foundation of the permanent government on February 22, 1862, [2] the Confederate States Congress adopted national symbols distinct from ...
Flags of the Confederate States of America (14 P, 1 F) Pages in category "National symbols of the Confederate States of America" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Media in category "Flags of the Confederate States of America" This category contains only the following file. B. File:Battle flag of the Confederate States of ...
It was a sea of symbolism that day from American flags to Nazi imagery, Confederate flags, the Gadsden flag. Laura Scofield is a vexillologist, a fancy term for someone who studies flags.
Officers of the Confederate States Navy used, just like the army, a combination of several rank insignias to indicate their rank. [4] [better source needed] While both hat insignia and sleeve insignia were used here the primary indicator were shoulder straps.
The flag is also a symbol of exploration. It was planted on the moon during the first landing by Apollo 11 astronauts in 1969. The flag even has its own day -- each year Americans celebrate flag ...
Putting the names of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson back on Virginia schools is reminder of how politically powerful those Confederate figures are (and have been for generations) in that ...