The Confederate states went through three official flags during the four-year Civil War, but none of them was the battle flag that’s at the center of the current controversy. The first was the ...

But the Confederate battle flag was flown by rioters in the U.S. Capitol building for the first time ever on Jan. 6. The flag's prominence in the Capitol riot comes as no surprise to those who ...

was not the official national flag of the Confederate States of America. That flag, which in its original form was a square flag, was a battle flag, and first used as a regimental flag before ...

the Confederate flag predictably makes appearances at white supremacist gatherings. But how did the battle flag, also known as the Southern Cross, come to represent the Confederacy in the first ...

In a report to the Confederate Congress, Miles said that the original Confederate national ... Coski also noted that, while the battle flag has come to be known as the "Stars and Bars," that ...

After one Confederate regiment fired on another, possibly because of the confusion between the flags, it was redesigned. The battle flag was first distributed to Confederate troops in November ...

Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. NEW-ORLEANS, Oct. 20.--Since the war the battle flag of the Louisiana Guard Artillery, commanded by Col.

The first unofficial flag of the Confederacy ... took a rejected flag idea and began to use it in battle. The Confederate Battle flag is a square featuring two bars crossed in an X at the center ...

Just one day after the first shots were fired at Fort ... Sherman of Minnesota stands in front of the Confederate flag he seized in the Battle of Gettysburg. It's believed he held onto the flag ...

SPARTANBURG — A massive Confederate battle flag raised over Interstate 85 in ... of the Civil War when the slave-owning state was the first to secede from the Union. The symbol has lived on ...