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 ...

"For a lot of us, they're synonymous." The Confederate flag has had several different designs throughout its history. The first Confederate flag, called Stars and Bars, was intentionally designed ...

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 compromise that emerged-- first in the state Senate and then affirmed in the House -- sent the flag to its present location by the monument to the Confederate Soldier. In a bit of legislative ...

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 ...

In a report to the Confederate Congress, Miles said that the original Confederate national flag's colors were red, white, and blue because they were "the great republican colors." But here ...

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.

The Confederate battle flag, a controversial symbol that was condemned this week by much of the political spectrum, was born a few miles outside Washington during the first major land battle of ...

A Friday Post article (by T. Rees Shapiro and Moriah Balingit) reported on the latest Confederate flag controversy: A peaceful student demonstration at a Virginia high school ended with school ...

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 ...