Not looking to argue over this but I wanted to share. Other probably already knew this but it was news to me. The original Confederate battle flag had a blue St George's Cross (an upright or Latin cross) on a red field, with 15 white stars on the cross, representing the Confederate States, and, on the red field, palmetto and crescent symbols.
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However it was changed so as not to offend Southron Jews:
Miles received a variety of feedback on this design, including a critique from Charles Moise, a self-described "Southerner of Jewish persuasion". Moise liked the design, but asked that "the symbol of a particular religion not be made the symbol of the nation." Taking this into account, Miles changed his flag, removing the palmetto and crescent, and substituting a heraldic saltire ("X") for the upright one. The number of stars was changed several times as well. He described these changes and his reasons for making them in early 1861. The diagonal cross was preferable, he wrote, because "it avoided the religious objection about the cross (from the Jews and many Protestant sects), because it did not stand out so conspicuously as if the cross had been placed upright thus." He also argued that the diagonal cross was "more Heraldric [sic] than Ecclesiastical, it being the 'saltire' of Heraldry, and significant of strength and progress."
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An interesting fact. Nothing to argue over. But I thought it was "share worthy". There are so many little tidbits about the war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America#Battle_flag
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However it was changed so as not to offend Southron Jews:
Miles received a variety of feedback on this design, including a critique from Charles Moise, a self-described "Southerner of Jewish persuasion". Moise liked the design, but asked that "the symbol of a particular religion not be made the symbol of the nation." Taking this into account, Miles changed his flag, removing the palmetto and crescent, and substituting a heraldic saltire ("X") for the upright one. The number of stars was changed several times as well. He described these changes and his reasons for making them in early 1861. The diagonal cross was preferable, he wrote, because "it avoided the religious objection about the cross (from the Jews and many Protestant sects), because it did not stand out so conspicuously as if the cross had been placed upright thus." He also argued that the diagonal cross was "more Heraldric [sic] than Ecclesiastical, it being the 'saltire' of Heraldry, and significant of strength and progress."
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An interesting fact. Nothing to argue over. But I thought it was "share worthy". There are so many little tidbits about the war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America#Battle_flag
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