The blue flag was more prominent, at least until near the end. Itsall
a buncha BS. Look up Derek Warfield, "the Bonnie Blue Flag"
First time I was in the statehouse, (6th grade) I looked at all the
captured civil war battle flags and was very disappointed that the vast
majority were not the stars and bars we had been told was THE flag.
According to the former rag of record, there were 34 captured civil war
flags. If memory serves, only one was stars and bars, but a couple
others had that as the field. Same rag sez the state has 212 captured
battle flags. However
https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/IR/16891.pdf sez there are
over 200 captured civil wah flags, and the legislature spent almost 2
million to stabilize and restore em at time of publication.
Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote on 6/18/19 8:05 AM:
BTW that is not a "rebel" flag, it is the Confederate Battle Flag. It
was initially the Army of Northern Virginia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Northern_Virginia> battle flag
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_flag> under General Robert E. Lee
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee>, designed by William
Porcher Miles <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Porcher_Miles>
then adopted and reused later in other variants, most lately to become
the "Confederate Flag."
I do understand that in today's political climate it causes
consternation among many, mostly it seems due to appropriation by
various dumbasses to represent distasteful and hateful ideologies.
One was flown over the statehouse (our version of a lunatic asylum)
here until a coupla years ago at which time it was moved to another
site, or done away with altogether, I don't recall. It was there
mostly as a big FU to others the good ol boys thought needed reminding
of the Late Unpleasantness.
--FT
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