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 ...

Though inextricably linked with the Confederacy, the flag was never its official symbol. When rebels fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, they flew a blue banner with a single white star called ...

despite critics saying the flag is based on the "Stars and Bars," the first official Confederate flag. Adopted: 1905 Designed by a Colonel in the Tennessee reserve in 1905, there is no direct evidence ...

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 Confederacy's original "stars and bars" design was too similar to the U.S. flag, which led to confusion on the battlefields, where troop positions were marked by flags. The official flag went ...

Though the battle flag is widely thought to be the official Confederate flag, Grey and other historians say that technically is not the case. Across the nation, the battle flag has been the ...

The Gadsden flag was not the official “Flag of the Confederacy,” as the Alabama Beacon called it, but several newspapers described it in those terms. In September 1861, when the Cincinnati ...

“Like the Confederate cross of St. Andrew, the Bear Flag is a symbol whose time has come and gone.” Before the Civil War, few states had official flags. As Southern states began seceding in ...

Now, in the aftermath of the horrific Charleston church shooting, South Carolina’s placement of the Confederate flag on official government grounds is once again generating headlines.

France and the U.S. The star above the word “Arkansas” represents the state’s membership in the Confederacy. The California state flag adorns the state's official animal, the grizzly bear ...