RICHMOND, Virginia – It will be flag versus flag Saturday near the former capital of the Confederacy, as a heritage group promises to hoist a Confederate battle flag up a 50-foot pole along ...

Much of the rest of the nation sees the battle flag as an unfurled symbol of slavery and segregation. “That’s not what it means here,” Tester says. “Never. Virginia is for lovers.” ...

The flag that southern capitols fly today was a Northern Virginia battle flag. Photograph by Don Troiani, Corbis The Confederate flag of today wasn’t actually the flag of the Confederacy—it ...

still have no idea who stole about 200 Confederate battle flags from a cemetery and dumped ... according to a department spokesman. Virginia law prohibits “the willful or malicious destruction ...

For years, a claim has circulated on social media that the state of Minnesota has repeatedly refused requests from the state of Virginia to return a battle flag captured from Confederate troops ...

It has long caused controversy. And Minnesota is not moving it. The Confederate icon — a scarred Virginia battle flag — was captured by the First Minnesota Pvt. Marshall Sherman at the bloody ...