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 ...

What is now called the Confederate flag was never the official banner of the Confederate States of America, whose secession prompted the Civil War. It was actually a battle flag first used in 1861 ...

"You mostly see it now in the backwoods areas in Southern states or on Confederate ... flag sales items from national park bookstores and gift shops. “We strive to tell the complete story of ...

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 ...

was technically never the official flag of the Confederate States of America. Tap to view if on News app. Popular YouTube video maker CGP Grey created the above educational video to explain ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: This analysis was excerpted from the June 12 edition of CNN’s Meanwhile in America ... of the blue and red flag of the breakaway confederacy states in the US Civil War deny ...

the Confederate flag was never actually the official flag of the Confederate States of America — rather, it was the battle flag of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Celebrated ...

For 39 years, the Confederate ... Carolina state flag, which features a white crescent moon and palmetto tree against a field of indigo. But in at least five other Southern states, symbols of ...