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In reply to the discussion: Gov Haley has called for the rebel flag to come down [View all]RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)The first official flag of the CSA resembled the the flag of the United States. Difference - 3 stripes instead of 13 and a varying number stars (over time) arranged in a circle.
It lasted for 2 years, and the for the next two years the CSA's flag was white with the 'battle flag' in the upper left corner.
The 'battle flag' of the armies of the CSA is what flies at the SC Capitol, and that's all it was - it never was the national flag of the CSA, and thus it only can really represent the civil war and the fighting.
In contrast, all of the states in the CSA flew the flag of the United States for many, many years longer than either the official CSA flag or the battle flag before the civil war. As a matter of heritage, the CSA battle flag is a blip on the radar of the South. There's about 4 1/2 years of heritage tied up in that flag, and the youngest CSA state, Texas, flew the US flag for 15 years before the civil war.
I can't understand why that flag is so full of 'heritage.' Its use after the war was almost entirely by active racist vigilante groups, which isn't much of a heritage to embrace...