Critics say it’s a racist symbol that represents a war to uphold slavery and, later, a battle to oppose civil rights advances. The Confederate states went through three official flags during the ...

Although future official Confederate banners did incorporate ... The Dixiecrats’ adoption of the Confederate battle flag as a party symbol led to a surge in the banner’s popularity, and ...

It was never an official banner of the Confederacy, but it grew so popular as the war progressed, it was incorporated into versions of the whole movement's flag. The Confederate battle flag that ...

The official flag went through a series of changes in attempts to distinguish Confederate from Union troops. The Confederacy would ultimately adopt the "Southern Cross" as its battle flag ...

was not the official national flag of the Confederate States of America. That flag, which in its original form was a square flag, was a battle flag, and first used as a regimental flag before ...

Though the battle flag is widely thought to be the official Confederate flag, Grey and other historians say that technically is not the case. Across the nation, the battle flag has been the ...

Confederate battle flags were placed on graves of Confederate soldiers buried in Woodbine Cemetery in Harrisonburg, Va. On Veterans Day, many flags were stolen. (Col. D. H. Lee Martz Camp #10/Sons ...

An Air Force official told CNN that if an individual service member were to report a Confederate flag tattoo as being offensive to their commander, that officer would likely have the authority to ...

Critics say it’s a racist symbol that represents a war to uphold slavery and, later, a battle to oppose civil rights advances. The Confederate states went through three official flags during the ...