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Jim Lane

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5. There was more than one flag in 1861.

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Sat Aug 31, 2013, 12:53 PM

Aug 2013

The initial version of what's in the upper left, adopted on March 4, 1861, had seven stars. It was changed to nine, then eleven, then the thirteen-star version shown here. That last change, effective November 28, 1861, reflected the Confederacy's position that rump pro-Southern groups in Kentucky and Missouri were the legal governments of those states and had seceded.

At least, that's what I read in the Wikipedia article about the CSA flag.

A little-known fact from that article is that there was a third national flag, adopted in March 1865. It was (perforce) in use only a short time and only a few of them were produced. It was like the one shown in the OP in the upper right but with a vertical red bar along the right-hand side.

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