The Confederate Flag

There were some banners of the Confederate States of America utilized throughout its reality from 1861 to 1865. Since the end of the American Civil War, individual and authorized use of Confederate banners, and of banners drawn from these, has proceeded under some controversy.

The state banners of Mississippi and Georgia were founded on Confederate flags. The flag of North Carolina is founded on the state's 1861 flag, which designated days back to the Confederacy and seems to be founded on the first Confederate flag. The banners of Alabama and Florida emerge to be of Confederate inspiration, but are likely drawn from the Cross of Burgundy flag, which took air journey over the territory of Spanish Florida.

First national flag ("the Stars and Bars")

The first authorized flag of the Confederacy, called the "Stars and Bars," was flown from March 5, 1861, to May 26, 1863.

The first nationwide flag of the Confederacy was conceived by Prussian creative individual Nicola Marschall in Marion, Alabama.(Bonner, 2002) The Stars and Bars flag was taken up March 4, 1861 in Montgomery, Alabama and increased over the dome of that first Confederate Capitol. Marschall furthermore conceived the Confederate uniform.(Coski, 2005)

One of the first actions of the Provisional Confederate Congress was to conceive the Committee on the Flag and Seal, chaired by William Porcher Miles of South Carolina. The managing assembly inquired the public to submit thoughts and concepts on the theme and was, as historian John M. Coski places it, "overwhelmed by demands not to leave the 'old flag' of the United States." Miles had currently conceived a flag that would subsequent become the Confederate assault flag, and he highly ranked his flag over the "Stars and Bars" proposal. But granted the well liked support for a flag alike to the U.S. flag ("the Stars and Stripes"), the Stars and Bars conceive was accepted by the committee.(Katcher, 1993) When conflict smashed out, the Stars and Bars initiated disarray on the battlefield because of its likeness to the U.S. flag of the U.S. Army.(Madaus, 1994)

Eventually, a total of 13 stars would be shown on the flag, mirroring the Confederacy's assertions to have accepted Kentucky and Missouri into their union. The first public look of the 13-star flag was out-of-doors the Ben Johnson House in Bardstown, Kentucky. The 13-star conceive was furthermore utilized as the cornerstone of a naval ensign.

Second national flag ("the Stainless Banner")

During the solicitation for the second nationwide flag, there were numerous distinct kinds of concepts that were suggested, almost all making use of the assault flag, which by 1863 had become well-known and popular. The new conceive was particular by the Confederate Congress to be a white area "with the amalgamation (now utilized as the assault flag) to be a rectangle of two-thirds the breadth of the flag, having the ground red; thereupon a very broad saltier [sic] of azure, bordered with white, and inscribed with mullets or five-pointed stars, corresponding in number to that of the Confederate States." (Marcovitz, 2004)

The nickname "stainless" mentioned ...