Confederate Flags (U.S.)

Last modified: 2004-12-22 by rick wyatt
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• The Civil War
• Flag of Stanhope Watte
• Popularity of the different flags
• Recent history of the flags as a symbol for neo-groups
• Heritage Not Hate flag
• I Ain't Coming Down flag

See also:

• Civil War Flags of the Confederacy
• History of Confederate Battle Flags
• Battle Flags' Popularization
• Confederate Flag Proposals
• Legislation Concerning Confederate Flags
• United States of America
• Historical flags of the United States
• FOTC - Flags of the Confederacy site by Devereaux Cannon

The Civil War

Editor's note: Topic included in order to give non-Americans a context for these flags.

The Southern states of the USA exercised what they believed to be their constitutional right to secede from the Union in 1861. A War Between The States followed that resulted in the loss of over half a million soldiers. Many of the citizens of these states still wave the flags that their forefathers used during the brief period of independence. Some others object to this display of affection for what is known as the "Lost Cause".
William M. Grimes-Wyatt, 22 July 1996

Confederate flags

There was no one flag of the short lived Confederate States of America.

The first unofficial one was the "