The original Confederate flag’s similarity to the Union flag ... And even Lee distanced himself from divisive symbols of a Civil War that his side lost. “I think it wiser moreover not to ...

Another approach suggested the flag move to the state’s Confederate Relic and Military History Museum. The plan to place it by the Wade Hampton statue (Hampton was a Confederate Civil War ...

But how did it get there in the first place? South Carolina's confederate flag hasn't been flying since the Civil War. The flag wasn’t prominently displayed in the South until southern ...

According to civil war protocol (to the ... or prevalent then as it is today. The original flag was a battle flag that never officially represented the Confederate States of America.

This notion is belied by any serious interrogation of the Civil War and the primary documents of its instigators. Yet the Confederate battle flag—the ... families of an original member ...

Catherine Wright talked about the American Civil War Museum’s collection of Confederate flags and told the stories behind some of the collection’s most historic flags. She also explained how ...

“The Confederate flag symbolizes more than the civil war and the slavery era,” wrote ... South staggered to her knees assisted by the original Ku Klux Klan and the Red Shirts who redeemed ...

The Confederacy's original "stars and bars" design ... material interest of the world." After the Civil War, Confederate veterans groups used the flag at their meetings to commemorate fallen ...

The act brings into focus the legacy and complex history of the flag, which long ago represented Confederate states in the South that went to war with Northern states in the Civil War.

Private Marshall Sherman of Minnesota stands in front of the Confederate flag he seized in the Battle of Gettysburg. It's believed he held onto the flag and eventually gave it to a Civil War ...