The 'Stars and Bars' was > two horizontal red bars, one white, with a blue field and white stars. This flag was flown over Fort Sumter. 'Stainless' banner replaced the red bars with a solid white. This would be the second national flag, replacing the 7 stars in a circle with 13 stars in the x pattern( St. Andrews cross.) The 'Jackson' > Flag added a vertical red bar at the end of the flag, and the 'Battle' flag > replaced the field of stars. This would be the third national flag. Only a very few of these were ever made. Confederate ships flew variations of first national and second national, but always had a 12' "naval Jack" ready for hoisting. And I have always thought that the Bonnie Blue was a Alabama secession flag, before the Confederate gov, was in place, not a designated flag of the confederacy, I may be mistaken. And if someone is looking for something to pin down as a Battle Flag, good luck, there were so many designs on the feild of battle that it would be kinda hard. I am glad there is people out there with your knowledge, thats the problem with the world today, if your not educated on something "its Bad". Steve Vick,SCV,MOSB ----- Original Message ----- From: Ronald Vick <ronald.vick@mindspring.com> To: <VICK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 7:24 PM Subject: Re: [VICK-L] FLAG > At 11:21 PM 1/24/00 -0500, you wrote: > >Steve, > > Nothing has been decided. They keep having meetings and pro & con > >rallies, but nothing constructive. We're from Alabama and have been > >through this once. Hope they settle it soon. NITA > > BTW we had snow again today. My son drove down to Columbia last night > >and got stuck. > >They're predicting another round for Wed or Fri. Looks like we're going > >to have all our winter this week. :) > >*************************************************************************** > *** > > > >What is the latest news on the Confederate Battle Flag in SC. Just > >wondering > >if they had made a decision on whether to take it down or not. > >Steve Vick > > > > > >==== VICK Mailing List ==== > >If you haven't visited our VICK MyFamily.com website, you are missing out > >on a lot of fun and information. If you need assistance or you have not yet > >received a tempory User Name and Password just contact me. > >Linda Fiddie > >jordans@rose.net > > > >============================== > >Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > >RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > > > > The press is making quite a fuss about the 'Confederate' Flag, while some > that have a little more knowledge think it's the 'Battle' flag, neither of > which is correct. Given the design and shape, it could be one of two > flags, the Confederate Navy ensign, which was flown at the front of > Confederate ships, or it could be the National Symbol of the Southern > Democratic Party (adopted in 1948), which was also known by the nickname > 'DixieCrat' party. > > I suspect that if one of the actual Confederate flags were put up, not one > person in a million would recognize it. The 'Bonny Blue' flag of the > confederacy was solid blue with a single star. The 'Stars and Bars' was > two horizontal red bars, one white, with a blue field and white stars. The > 'Stainless' banner replaced the red bars with a solid white. The 'Jackson' > Flag added a vertical red bar at the end of the flag, and the 'Battle' flag > replaced the field of stars. > > The flag which is claimed to be the 'Battle' flag today was never the > 'Confederate' flag. It resembles the flag of the Army of Virginia, but > that was a true battle flag and was square in shape. > > Ronald Vick > > > > ==== VICK Mailing List ==== > If you haven't visited our VICK MyFamily.com website, you are missing out > on a lot of fun and information. If you need assistance or you have not yet > received a tempory User Name and Password just contact me. > Linda Fiddie > jordans@rose.net > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ >