which was carried onto the Civil War battlefield but was never the official banner of the Confederacy, have proposed replacing it with the First National Flag of the Confederate states.

That created an economic and emotional gulf. Meanwhile ... Yes, during the war, the Confederate battle flag was flown over brave and dedicated men. But in the 1960s, its aura was trampled to ...

It was never an official banner of the Confederacy, but it grew so popular as the war progressed, it was incorporated into versions of the whole movement's flag. The Confederate battle flag that ...

The racist massacre in a South Carolina church has tipped the balance in a decades-old tug of war over the meaning of the Confederate battle flag. Its champions have argued it’s a symbol of ...

But if you want to understand how the U.S. military came to embrace the Confederate flag in the first place, the answers lie in World War II. When white southern troops went overseas during the ...

And the state flag of Mississippi, incorporating the Confederate battle ... a barrier island off the Gulf Coast held by Black Union soldiers during the Civil War, for instance, a monument had ...

It's a complex issue for the military, said Craig Warren, a Pennsylvania college professor who has authored two books on the Civil War. While the Confederate battle flag's origin is a "military ...

But how did it get there in the first place? South Carolina's confederate flag hasn't been flying since the Civil War. The flag wasn’t prominently displayed in the South until southern ...

When a mob of armed insurgents flooded the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, they brought an accessory: the Confederate battle flag. As the crowd of President Trump’s supporters rioted, many ...