Though withdrawn from combat, it remained the official national flag of the Confederacy until May 1863. The new Georgia state flag differs from it only in that it has stars for all 13 actual or ...

The flag we fight over today was not deployed until 1863. Georgia created a state flag using the original “Stars and Bars” sans the stars (with a blank field of blue on the flag’s left ...

The Union officer’s great-grandson, Robert Clayton, donated the flag to be displayed at Fort McAllister State Historic Park in coastal Georgia ... Feb. 1 and March 3, 1863 — were also painted ...

The X design was incorporated into the nation's national flag in 1863 and remained there ... attached to the battle flag. Georgia's current state flag, adopted after the state removed the battle ...

ATLANTA — While the Confederate battle emblem is being removed from the Mississippi state flag, Georgia has had its own very tumultuous history with its own flag -- especially since 1956 ...

A segregation-era flag bearing the Confederate battle emblem was changed in 2001 and then again in 2004 amid strong debate and disagreement. Georgia’s official state flag is actually the third ...

A new state flag has been raised at Georgia's state capitol building, replacing a banner that gave prominence to the Confederate battle emblem. Whether for right or wrong, the flag has been used by ...

Kennedy Profile in Courage Award from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation for his successful effort to take down a Georgia state flag that prominently featured the Confederate battle emblem.

A segregation-era flag bearing the Confederate battle emblem was changed in 2001 and then again in 2004 amid strong debate and disagreement. Georgia’s official state flag is actually the third ...