Over the years, the Confederate battle flag has come to ... The symbol comes from a square battle flag flown by Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War.

Cabell approved the design for a new flag: square and red, with diagonally crossed blue bars and stars — the Confederate battle flag. “There was a lot of confusion” during the early part of ...

But it was originally the battle flag of Confederate Gen ... and Stripes with three red and white stripes bordering a blue square with seven white stars. In 1863, the battle flag was officially ...

By 1863, the Army of Northern Virginia's square battle flag was so popular ... state's Department of Archives and History. The Confederate battle flag has hung in the upper left corner of ...

Accordingly, at the end of 1861 the Army of Northern Virginia adopted a (square) battle flag based on a design that had initially been rejected for the First Confederate flag and was distinct from ...

As the Confederate flag was lowered from ... The runner-up in the contest was a square flag known as the Confederacy battle flag, which showed a blue cross and white stars against a red background ...

But it was originally the battle flag of Confederate Gen ... and Stripes with three red and white stripes bordering a blue square with seven white stars. In 1863, the battle flag was officially ...

The Confederate battle flag was removed from the South Carolina ... But it’s past time to free the public square from statues of Confederate heroes and the ignoble cause they represent.

became the de facto battle flag of the Confederate army. Troops fought under a square flag. The rectangular version now familiar to us was employed by the Confederate Navy and known as the ...

Confederate forces in the field adopted what was known as the battle flag or the “Southern Cross.” This consisted of a square field of red crossed by two diagonal stripes of blue (the so ...