@Klaudly beat me to it, with all the copyright stuff going on I wasn't sure if I could post the same pictures without taking them myself. I knew they existed, one of the reenacting units I belong to portrays the 8th. One of the members made a copy of one of those and did a great job with it.
Correct me but is the State flag a combination of the Confederate flag of Saint Andrew and the State's seal?If this is so then could this be a method to maintain the Confederate legacy of the State ?This would be like Maryland still with its State song being 'My Maryland" which has a very clear reference to slavery yet no group as demanded that it be changed ?
You may be right. The current Florida state flag was adopted in 1900.
My g-grandfather was a CS vet from Mississippi. In the 1880's he bought 80 acres at Sanford-Lake Mary and moved the family there to grow oranges. I believe land in central Florida was just opening at the time.
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I would venture to say, right off the top of my head Florida Flags would be in the majority or close to it of survivors, a major collection was donated to the old MOC and they were displayed throughout the museum. Since the MOC is the "Museum of What's Happing Now" the flags are no longer on display.
No, the flags were displayed throughout the Richmond museum, Appomattox has not changed their display since Richmond moved. The Appomattox display is the same as it was 5 years ago, I visited this past August.
Described well.
It's a Hardee flag. Do you know the regiment?
Could it be said that there are so many Confederate flags ,from the states and then from the divisions from those states ,that if is difficult to state which flag is the recognized state flag as it is with the other states.of the CSA?Its like the Confederate battle flag and the national flag of the Confederacy.You ask one you git this as the flag then ask another it is this flag. The question I would ask how many stars were on the Union flag after the states had all succeeded and how many before.Then how many stars were on the Confederate flag?Were there stars representing the two none succeeded states of Maryland and Kentucky
The U. S. Flag was not modified to reflect the States that seceded.
The 1st National Flag of the Confederacy added stars as new states succeeded from the union. The redesigned 2nd National flag had the 13 stars for each state. Not all states had a state flag at the beginning of the war, North Carolina being one. Some of those states used the first national with their state symbol in place of the stars. I posted some shots of the 1st National as it changed with the new states stars added
Then could it be the reason that the administration did not believe that these states had NOT succeeded from the Union in fact were still part of the Union but merely in a condition of REBELLION/.If that be the case then why did these Southern states have to endure the twelve years of Union reconstruction, military occupation and to fulfill unconstitutional acts to be READMITTED ? Did Lincoln see these states as succeeded or in a political state of rebellion against the central authority of the Constitution/central government.Did it become a REVOLUTION in the thoughts of the Southern people once Lincoln called for soldiers ? The Union flag represented a union of states the Confederate flag was on of a part of the country which desired to maintain its own sense of freedom and fear of losing that freedom as was lectured to them by those in positions of respect and authority over the generations .Suggest historical novel series by John Jakes "NORTH and South" .This series ,though not history,present a story of two families one North and one South from the early 19th century to the end of the CW. The changes in each generation as the time approaches of the separation and though the war.
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