The Confederate States of American was created in 1861 when 11 states seceded from the United States of America, which was created 85 years earlier on July 4, 1776. The Confederate States of ...

In March 1861, the New York Times reported that, in Baltimore, “Cards were in extensive circulation, bearing the flag of the Confederate states, with a rattlesnake wreathed among its folds ...

Just days after seceding in April 1861, Virginia adopted the flag ... the Confederate battle flag. The official flag of the Confederate States of America, colloquially called the “Stars and ...

When rebels fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, they flew a blue banner with a single white star called the Bonnie Blue Flag. But as secession got underway, the Confederate States of America ...

As more states joined the confederacy ... Lee, after having been previously rejected as the Confederate national flag in 1861. The Saint Andrew's Cross ("X") element, which was the flag of ...

At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln refused to remove the stars representing states that had seceded from the Union. The First Confederate National Flag was ...

The incident has once again confused many over the history of the Confederacy and its many flags. The Confederate States of America was formed on Feb. 8, 1861, by South Carolina, Mississippi ...

In 2020, NASCAR banned the Confederate flag. Southernization coincides with a geographic sorting in the United States. Not long ago, there were Democrats in both rural and urban areas and in every ...

The Hamilton, C.W., Spectator of July 29 says: "Early on Sunday morning, about 5 o'clock, a beautiful flag, bearing as many stars upon it as the States out of the American Union, might have been ...

But exactly 130 years before that, in 1861, another superpower ... representing the 34 states, the Confederate States of America fought the war under its own flag, called the Stars and Bars ...

Mississippi celebrates Confederate Memorial Day as a state holiday on the last Monday of April. Only four states, including ... the war started this month in 1861. It was the deadliest conflict ...