The Confederate states went through three official flags during the four-year Civil War, but none of them was the battle flag that’s at the center of the current controversy. The first was the ...

Georgia lawmakers previously had voted to greatly reduce the rebel cross' presence on the state flag in 2001, changing the state banner for the first time since 1956. The Confederate banner has ...

Here's how the controversial flag has evolved: First Confederate flag: “The Stars and Bars” The first official flag of the Confederacy was adopted on March 4, 1861, and was almost immediately ...

The confederate flag seems to be falling surprisingly easily ... the confederate general and first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. In Tennessee, some Democrats and the chairman of the state ...

About that time, Hollings presented a Confederate flag to President John F ... the state legislature passed and Hodges signed a proposal first offered by his GOP predecessor, David Beasley.

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- For the first time since the civil rights movement, the Confederate flag was removed entirely from the South Carolina Statehouse, in a swift ceremony Friday before thousands of ...

The first unofficial flag of the Confederacy ... Concerned over friendly fire due to the similarities in the Union and Confederate flags, the Confederacy's military took a rejected flag idea ...

Civil War historians told PolitiFact the flag does not represent a Confederate flag. The first Confederate flag had a varying number of stars based on how many states seceded from the Union.

So let’s think about removing the Confederate flag from the capitol grounds in ... means of appeasement for those who do not like the First Amendment, unless it fits their agenda?

Confederate Memorial Day is not only racist — it is bad policy, bad governance and a deep stain on the values we claim to uphold today.