March 4th 1861

[D Lord]

3/4/1861 1st Stars & Bars flag flown over capitol in Montgomery AL

 

[D Lord]

Confederate Congress approves revision to 3rd National flag 1865

 

[Tin cup]

Confederate Congress approves revision to 3rd National flag 1865

You might want to save the red ink for the mods!

Kevin Dally

 

[KeyserSoze]

Confederate Congress approves revision to 3rd National flag 1865

OK so in 1865 the Confederacy is falling apart at the seams, Sherman is wandering around the Carolinas, Lee is trapped in Petersburg, and all the rebel Congress has to do with its time is approve revisions to their flag?

 

[rpkennedy]

OK so in 1865 the Confederacy is falling apart at the seems, Sherman is wandering around the Carolinas, Lee is trapped in Petersburg, and all the rebel Congress has to do with its time is approve revisions to their flag?

Pretty much like every government everywhere.

R

 

[yankee belle]

March 4, 1861 was also the day of Lincoln's first inauguration.

 

[CSA Today]

OK so in 1865 the Confederacy is falling apart at the seems, Sherman is wandering around the Carolinas, Lee is trapped in Petersburg, and all the rebel Congress has to do with its time is approve revisions to their flag?

Yeah, they didn't want it to look like a flag of surrender.

Lieutenant Charles Brown (21st Michigan) describing a Confederate attack on his position at Bentonville: "stood as long as a man could stand and when that was no longer a possibility we run like the duce."
The Battle of Bentonville, 19-21 March 1865

 

[CSA Today]

3/4/1861 1st Stars & Bars flag flown over capitol in Montgomery AL

It flew over the capitol in Raleigh, NC 3/2/ 2013 for Confederate Flag Day.

 

[KeyserSoze]

Yeah, they didn't want it to look like a flag of surrender.

Another epic failure on their part.