While it wasn’t the Confederate states’ official flag, the battle flag was flown by several Confederate Army units. The most notable among them was Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern ...

Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil ... it was incorporated into versions of the whole movement's flag. The Confederate battle flag that waves near South Carolina's statehouse once ...

But it was originally the battle flag of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. The banner has become more popular than the Confederacy’s first official flag, the Stars ...

At Army posts throughout the country ... professor who has authored two books on the Civil War. While the Confederate battle flag's origin is a "military symbol of a slave-holding republic ...

“The flag that is in the controversy right now is the Army of Northern Virginia battle flag,” Harriman said. The Confederate flag known as the Stars and Bars, which has a circle of white stars ...

Not all Americans agreed. When Army Lieutenant General Simon Buckner Jr., himself the son of a Confederate general, saw a Marine unit flying the flag at the battle of Okinawa, he ordered it removed.

"The Confederate battle flag has all too often been co-opted by ... The flag was carried by the Confederate Army during the Civil War in the 1860s. Its prevalent presence on military bases has ...

“We call our brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate battle ... Army members, helped draft that language, which included striking a paragraph that linked ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle ... “After the battle was lost by the Confederate Army, it really represented a decline in their momentum.

the Confederate Army's momentum declined. Matthew Rand: What do we know about this specific battle flag captured during the fighting and why is it so rare? Adam Fleischer: So it was carried by the ...