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	Flags of the Confederate States of America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This flag, however, had its own problem: when the battlefield was windless, it was sometimes mistaken for a flag of surrender because all that could be seen was the field of white.
		The battle flag of the Confederacy is square, of various sizes for the different branches of the service: 48 inches square for the infantry, 36 inches for the artillery, and 30 inches for the cavalry.
		It was used in battle from November 1861 to the fall of the Confederacy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confederate_Battle_Flag (1763 words)

	Confederate Battle Flag
		The result was the square flag sometimes known as the "Southern Cross." The Confederate Battle Flag consisted of a blue saltire reminiscent of the St. Andrew's Cross, on which were situated 13 stars, with the saltire edged in white, all on a red background.
		The proportions for an Infantry Flag are; 48 in.
		In that publication, the UCV's official version of the Confederate Battle Flag shows the central star pointing toward the bottom of the flag, while each of the remaining 12 stars points at a 45° angle toward the upper top of the branch of the saltier on which the star is located.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/battlefl.htm (778 words)

	MSN Encarta - A Stately Quiz of Unflagging Interest
		This state flag was adopted in 2001, replacing a flag that had raised controversy due to its prominent placement of the cross of the Confederate battle flag, interpreted by many as a symbol of slavery.
		The palmetto at the center of this flag commemorates a 1776 battle in which a fort built of palmetto timbers on one of this state's many islands withstood heavy bombardment by the British fleet.
		This flag is taken from the coats of arms of the mother and father of Cecilius Calvert, Lord Baltimore, to whom Charles I of England granted the land that now makes up the state this flag represents.
	encarta.msn.com /quiz_93/A_Stately_Quiz_of_Unflagging_Interest.html (426 words)

	Confederate Flags of the American Civil War
		Although less well known than the "Confederate Battle Flags", the Stars and Bars was used as the official flag of the Confederacy from March 1861 to May of 1863.
		The best-known Confederate flag was the Battle Flag, the familiar "Southern Cross".
		The Confederate government did not adopt this flag but the people did and the lone star flags were adopted in some form in five of the southern States that adopted new flags in 1861.
	americancivilwar.com /south/conflag/southflg.html (805 words)

	Louisiana History - Confederate Battle Flag
		One of the designs was that of a St. Andrew's Cross styled flag, another with a blue ring in the middle of a red background, and the final, one similar to the United States flag but with seven stars and seven stripes of red and blue.
		The flag became the emblem of the new nation and was known as the First National Flag of the Confederacy or the Stars and Bars.
		It was during the battle of Bull Run that Louisiana General P. Beauregard realized that the Confederate flag was so much like the United States flag that it caused confusion and added deaths on the battlefield for both sides.
	www.louisiana101.com /ideas_battleflag.html (1152 words)

	"The Palmetto Guard Flag"
		General Beaurgard was determined to remedy the flag problem, he attempted to have the Confederate flag changed but Congressman William Porcher Miles suggested that the army adopt its own distinctive battle flag, and recommended the design he had presented to the Congress as the Confederate Flag on March 4, 1861.
		This flag was issued in different sizes; 48 inches square for the infantry, 36 inches for the artillery, and 30 inches for the cavalry.
		Other flags such as State regimental colors were used by the Confederacy on the battlefield, but the Battle Flag, although it was never officially recognized by the Confederate government, came to represent the Southern "cause" to most people.
	www.researchonline.net /gacw/confla12.htm (853 words)

	CNN.com - US - Hundreds protest as Confederate battle flag comes down in South Carolina - July 1, 2000
		For the opponents of the banner, the victorious battle to have the flag taken down from the dome was a limited one.
		Citadel cadets lowered the flag from the dome during a solemn noon ceremony.
		Afterward, a slightly smaller flag was raised by Civil War re-enactors on a new pole, inside a square enclosed by a fl wrought-iron fence next to a Confederate monument on the Statehouse grounds.
	www.cnn.com /2000/US/07/01/scflag.02 (957 words)

	Army of Northern Virginia (U.S.)
		The battle flag of the famous Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was altered in the design phase in order to make it easier to manufacture.
		The design for the ANV battle flag was originally submitted as rectangular - 12 gold stars on diagonally crossed blue bars - on a field of pink or rose (originally) - the Southern Cross.
		This famous square battle flag would see 8 more variant issues before the end of the war: one cotton (for three brigades only including the famous Texas Brigade) and 7 wool bunting issues that varied from one to the other by sizes, star separations and color of the exterior borders.
	flagspot.net /flags/us-anv.html (813 words)

	Confederate Battle Flags' History-1 (U.S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This article on the history of Confederate battle flags of the St. Andrews cross pattern was written for the exhibition at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia.
		Flags of this pattern were first issued to some units of Gen. John Magruder's Army of the Peninsula (which had merged into the ANV and had created their own distinctive battle flag in April, 1862), as well as new regiments of Longstreet's Wing.
		A parade of the 4 main flags used by the Army of the Mississippi was done while the army marched from Corinth to the battle by staff officers to familiarize the troops with the flags.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/us-csah.html (3722 words)

	The Truth about the Confederate Battle Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Secondly tonight, the Confederate flag is not a flag of slavery.
		The Confederate flag is not a flag of slavery.
		Confederate flag is a Christian flag and it represents freedom from tyranny.
	r.bradlow.home.att.net /Truth.html (7132 words)

	VDARE.com: 07/17/00 - Attacking the Confederate Battle Flag
		The Confederate Battle Flag is incorporated into the State Flags of both Georgia and Mississippi, and was the inspiration for the designs of the State Flags of Alabama, Arkansas, and Florida.
		Opponents of the Confederate Battle Flag allege it is a symbol of slavery, treason, and sedition.
		Under Abraham Lincoln, it was "the Stars and Stripes", not the Confederate Battle Flag, that became the symbol of sedition in 1861.
	www.vdare.com /fallon/confederate.htm (3757 words)

	Harvard University Press/The Confederate Battle Flag/Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The battle flag, though not the official banner of the Confederacy, emerged over the course of the war as the sentimental favorite among Confederate soldiers and civilians alike.
		He shows that the history of the flag is simply too complicated for anybody to reach such simplistic conclusions...The depth and breadth of his research give his book real authority, and future disputants on both sides will have to reckon with his clear, reliable conclusions.
		Coski provides a well-researched, clearly presented, and most important of all, scrupulously fair account of the history of the battle flag and the controversies surrounding it, one that avoids polemics and strives to be true to the historical record.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /reviews/COSCON_R.html (874 words)

	Confederate U S Georgia's Flag
		...confederate battle flag, prior to the adoption of the confederate cross.
		Flag of Georgia (U.S. state) The current flag of Georgia was adopted on May 8, 2003 after years of...
		Georgia's flag was changed in 2001 to shrink the Confederate symbol partly to avoid economic boycotts like the one aimed at South Carolina...
	www.flags-american-flag.com /flags/8/confederate-u-s-georgia%27s-flag.html (320 words)

	Confederate Flag
		While this flag was the original confederate flag, it was the Confederate "Southern Cross" that is typically associated with the confederacy today.
		The best-known of all Confederate flags—the battle flag—is often erroneously confused with the national flag of the Confederacy.
		The battle flag features the cross of St. Andrew (the apostle was martyred by being crucified on an X-shaped cross), and is commonly called the "Southern Cross." A large degree of the Southern population was of Scottish and Scotch-Irish ancestry, and thus familiar with St. Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /leefoundation/Confederate_Flag.htm (811 words)

	Confederate Flags of the American Civil War
		This book offers a history, profiles, design specs and an overview of the various flags (national flags, battle flags and naval ensigns) that were utilized by the Confederacy.
		Not only does it provide a very detailed look at the flags lost at Gettysburg but, it also gives a true relationship of the men and their flags and what it meant to them.
		It is a book all people, who look at the Condeferate Flag either as a symbol of hate or one of a heritage long past, should read.
	www.americancivilwar.com /south/conflag/southflg.html (805 words)

	Leon Puissegur: The Truth About The Confederate Battle Flag
		And the Stars and Bars represented the flag of the Confederacy; the Confederate Battle flag was used extensively in the Battles.
		In United Confederate Veterans, The Flags of the Confederate States of America (Baltimore:A. Hoen & Co.1907) it is described as follows; “The Battle flag is square, with a Greek Cross of blue, edged with white, with thirteen equal five-pointed stars, upon a red field; with the whole banner bordered in white.
		The proportions of the Infantry flag are: 48 in.
	www.sierratimes.com /05/06/20/209_215_39_4_52719.htm (2782 words)

	THE CONFEDERATE FLAG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For most people, the image of the Confederate Flag conjures up the "blue cross with white stars on a red background" which is more properly known as the Confederate battle flag, but in fact, there were a number of Confederate Flags used during the war, and many regiments and companies had their own unique flags.
		The Citadel Battle Flag - "Big Red" was carried by the men of The Citadel when firing the war's first shots at the Federal ship Star of the West months before the attack on Ft. Sumter and remains her flag today.
		The First National C.S.A. Flag - The Stars and Bars was used as the official flag of the Confederacy from March 1861 to May of 1863.
	www.researchonline.net /gacw/conflag1.htm (315 words)

	Hate Symbols: Confederate Flag - From A Visual Database of Extremist Symbols, Logos and Tattoos
		Although the flag is seen by some Southerners simply as a symbol of Southern pride, it is often used by racists to represent white domination of African-Americans.
		The flag remains a subject of controversy because some Southern states still fly the flag from public buildings or incorporate it into their state flag’s design.
		The flag is also used by racists as an alternative to the American flag, which they consider to be an emblem of what they describe as the Jewish-controlled government.
	www.adl.org /hate_symbols/racist_confederate_flag.asp (110 words)

	Amazon.com: The Confederate Battle Flag : America's Most Embattled Emblem: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Individual battle units in the Confederate forces had idiosyncratic flags, but the battle flag quickly caught on, and has been the symbol of the Confederacy ever since, although it usually is spread from the actual square into the rectangular version in popular reproductions.
		Their battle flag is rightly associated with the fight to preserve slavery, but as Coski points out, the flag also stood for Southerners' defense of their own view of constitutional liberties and southern customs.
		The flag has become a universal symbol of protest; the Sons of Confederate Veterans got requests for it from citizens of former Eastern bloc countries, and it was present at student protests in Yugoslavia.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674017226?v=glance (3266 words)

	The Confederate Battle Flag: A Symbol of Racism? (Charles Davidson) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Confederate battle flag is the symbol of the right of the local people and the states to govern themselves and is flown in memory and honor of our Confederate ancestors and veterans who gave their lives for less government, less taxes, and Southern independence.
		The Confederate battle flag represents all Southerners and even Northern Confederates from states such as Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and others, who supported the South and who even tried to secede from the Union and form their own nation but whose efforts for freedom were crushed by Lincoln's troops.
		The Confederate battle flag represents all Confederates, regardless of race or religion, and is the symbol of less government, less taxes, and the right of a people to govern themselves.
	www.pointsouth.com /csanet/confederate_flag.htm (3996 words)

	Texas NAACP: Confederate Battle Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ironically, the flag which was a confederate battle flag whose origin is with the 8th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, was never the official flag of the confederacy and was never the official flag of the Confederacy.
		Several years back when we were concerned about the use of such a flag by the Nacogdoches police department, it was determined that indeed the battle flag was never the official flag of the Confederacy.
		Its purpose is to call attention to several offensive uses in public places of the Rebel flag and the Texas NAACP's attempts to remove the Battle flag from the courts and public schools of Texas.
	www.texasnaacp.org /flag.htm (1578 words)

	Confederate Flag Controversy
		The Confederate battle flag is also called the "Southern Cross" (shown to the left).
		In 1962 the Confederate battle flag was placed on top of the South Carolina statehouse by vote of the all-white legislature.
		The bill specified that a more traditional version of the battle flag (square shaped as opposed to the rectangular flag now flying above the statehouse) would be flown in front of the Capitol next to a monument honoring fallen Confederate soldiers and on July 1, the flag was removed from the South Carolina statehouse.
	gpeig.org /confederate_flag_controversy.htm (580 words)

	freedomforum.org: Georgian loses battle to strip Confederate symbol from state flag
		Fulton County State Judge Melvin Westmoreland dismissed the case Friday ending a four-year battle by James Andrew Coleman to have the Confederate symbol removed from the flag.
		Coleman says he plans to take his one-man battle to Washington, D.C., where he plans to file a lawsuit against the U.S. government claiming that the states of Georgia and Mississippi are in violation of the Articles of Surrender by displaying the confederate symbol on their state flags.
		He says the Articles of Surrender were signed in 1865 at the end of the Civil War and stated that the Confederate cause would never be resurrected.
	www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=9891 (233 words)

	The Confederate Battle Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This author happens to agree, and taking this one step further, banning the Confederate flag would actually appear to be in violation of the 1st and 10th amendments if anyone outside of state government would try to force them to remove it.
		Therefore, the Confederate battle flag is a symbol of a proud effort to preserve the right to self-determination at the state level.
		The Confederate battle flag also serves as a reminder to those who, today, live there of the 600,000 to 1.5 million Southern boys who lost their lives fighting for something they believed in.[5]
	www.geocities.com /abcolombo/may00/053100.htm (1025 words)

	CSAnet: Confederate States Official Flag Regulations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The flag recommended by the "Committee on a Proper Flag for the Confederate States of America," appointed by the Provisional Congress, in its report of March 4th, 1861, is as follows:
		"That the Flag of the Confederate States of America shall consist of a red field with a white space extending horizontally through the center, and equal in width to one-third the width of the flag.
		The length of the flag one and a half times the width.
	www.pointsouth.com /csanet/flagregs.htm (380 words)

	Confederate flag - Truth about the Confederate Battle Flag
		The Confederate Battle Flag consisted of a blue saltire reminiscent of the As proposed by Beauregard and Johnston, the Confederate Battle Flag was of
		The very first flag of the Confederate States of America was raised by Miss This second National Confederate Flag was referred to as the "Stainless
		The final Confederate flag, the Third National Flag was sometimes referred to as the "Blood-stained Today, it is the most recognized Confederate flag.
	forsurfer.com /?q=confederate-flag (219 words)

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