The Confederate states went through three official flags during the four-year Civil War, but none of them was the battle flag that’s at the center of the current controversy. The first was the ...

How the Confederate flag came to be. Though inextricably linked with the Confederacy, the flag was never its official symbol. When rebels fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, they flew a blue ...

As public backlash against the Confederate battle flag intensifies, several major U.S. companies, including Wal-Mart, Target, Sears and EBay, have decided to stop selling items bearing the flag's ...

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 ...

The Confederate battle flag, the flag most commonly associated with the Confederacy, was not the official national flag of the Confederate States of America. Skip Navigation.

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, ...

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 ...

State leaders call for Confederate flag and symbols to be removed. — -- South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s call for the Confederate flag to be removed from the statehouse grounds there in ...

The Confederate states went through three official flags during the four-year Civil War, but none of them was the battle flag that’s at the center of the current controversy. The first was the ...

The Confederate states went through three official flags during the four-year Civil War, but none of them was the battle flag that’s at the center of the current controversy. The first was the ...