12 Reasons to Fly the Confederate Battle Flag

12/20/2019

1) It is one of the oldest Christian Symbol on Earth ( The St. Andrews Cross) and silently, but eloquently lets the world know that a Christian family resides at the residence where it is flown.

2) It is a universal symbol of resistance to tyranny, having been sighted flying in nearly every modern day conflict where people were, or are, fighting an oppressive and despotic governance.

3) It lets the world know that you know where you came from, and are proud of your ancestors efforts to preserve their liberty and God-given freedom.

4) It is a sign of unity that is instantly understood by all who have Southern blood, and if enough folks would begin flying it, it would almost overnight put an end to the liberal clamor to have it, and all Confederate symbols removed from public view.

5) It is a constant and powerful reminder that we have not forgotten what the Yankees did to our Ancestors and to our civilization, and are still doing, and that we do not intend to forget, nor forgive, until they cease meddling in our Sovereign affairs.

6) It honors the thousands of Southern Men, and Boys, whose blood was spilled, and who lost their lives, homes and everything they had, trying to keep the "Free, Constitutional, Representative Republic" that was bequeathed us by the Founders. A Republic we have not had, since Lee laid down his sword!

7) It is a reminder that Liberty is a God-given right, not a commodity to be controlled by greedy politicians, left-wing liberal teachers, and power-crazed activist judges. And also a reminder that Liberty is worth fighting for.

8) The sight of it subtly stirs the embers of pride which still glow, ever so faintly, in every real Southerner's heart, and which, now more than ever, need to be re-kindled into a bright and blazing fire!

9) It lets those who would oppress us, and steal our liberty know, that they have not yet succeeded, and will have not succeeded, until they have killed every last one of us, and destroyed every last Battle Flag. This has seldom happened in any oppressed country throughout history and will not happen here, unless we fail to educate our children about the real meaning of our flag.

10) Flying the Battle Flag reinforces the meaning of the First Amendment to the Constitution, which is supposed to guarantee that no despot can interfere with your God-given right to express Yourself, (Freedom of Speech).

11) It symbolizes the unique Southern States, where, we as a separate people, with a common background, have preserved, and continue to preserve, our honorable cultural heritage. In fact, the design of the Flag is Christian and Celtic in origin.

12) And finally....It is so brilliantly beautiful, one of the most beautiful, if not "the most beautiful" flag on the planet!!

80 Comments

Jeff Kyte

12/21/2019 09:56:25 am

Thank you for 12 reasons why I fly that flag every day. American flag and Confederate flag fly on the front of my house and have for years. I have a site to help protect Civil War monuments on Facebook and I also maintain the Jefferson Davis monument in Richmond Virginia because the city won't. God Bless America and God bless the South.

tony lee

12/21/2019 12:54:10 pm

It is about time someone respeces the stars and bars!

Maurice Melton

12/22/2019 04:55:57 pm

The Stars and Bars are the attributes of the First National flag. Three broad horizontal bars--red, white, red--with a dark blue union (square field) in the upper left hand corner. In the field is a circle of stars--originally seven, then eleven, then thirteen. See the current Georgia State flag, minus the arch.

Jim moss

6/16/2020 08:30:26 pm

The Battle Flag is not the stars and bars the first national flag is the stars and bars

James Coble link

1/14/2020 02:38:02 pm

Trouble is that libs are teaching our kids and they only portray the flag as evil. Thank you for putting out there the truth behind the flag.

Southerner

7/29/2021 12:51:26 pm

That’s because it is an evils symbol resurrected during the civil rights movement to scare black people.

TERRY HENSLEY link

7/31/2020 02:58:12 pm

THE. RED STOOD FOR THE BLOOD AND THE BLUE STOOD FOR THE SKY AND THE WHITE STOOD FOR THE HONOR THAT THEY HAD!!!!!

Southerner

7/29/2021 12:53:14 pm

And the whole flag together stands for hatred and racism.

Jeanne V. Peacock

5/29/2024 09:44:05 pm

Southerner: The flag does NOT represent racism! It is a Christian symbol (St. Andrew's Cross) & the colors represent the blood of Christ, blue sky or Heaven, & the white, Honor! it is ignorance & an unwillingness to read the truth about its history that causes problems!

Carl La Rue link

9/30/2020 06:47:41 pm

I would love to to fly our southern flag, but I am having trouble finding one to fly

Robert

10/3/2020 02:06:22 pm

Go to patrioticflags.com they have them.

DALE ROBBINS

8/13/2021 06:27:35 am

Go to ConfederateShops.com , they have all kind of Confederate items, flags etc.
https://confederateshop.com/

Ben Hill

11/25/2021 06:29:49 am

The flag is just a piece of cloth. I appologize that racists used it in any way BUT remember that the KKK also used the American flag a lot. AND, this is not the 50's anymore. It's time to get over the past and look towards the future and make it better.
Don't let the lying news media distort your vision. Dividing the country is in on ones best interest. We CAN live together in harmony.

9/16/2021 08:23:22 am

thanks for the good news it brightens my day

Ben Hill

11/25/2021 06:23:29 am

I checked out your FB page and shared a couple of the images. One is Stewart. The other may be Jackson, not sure. Good job.

Bill king

2/6/2024 06:27:02 am

God bless America and the south I’m a tn raised hillbilly and damn proud of my Haritage .the flag will fly forever even after we are gone, a new generation will pick up where we left off,so help me god 🙏

Edd Robinson

12/21/2019 02:24:20 pm

I am a Civil War reenactor, have bee for over 20 years. I reenact The Chesnut Light Artillery out of Charleston S C and The Missouri Guerrillas. I have Southern blood in me through my mother's heritage. I fly the 1st National Flag and the Stars and Bars in front of my home in North Central Illinois every day. No one has ever said a word to me about it.

Dean Arterburn link

1/14/2020 08:35:01 am

If y'all are gonna fly a Rebel Flag I think it should be the last one flown. Of course that would be the WHITE FLAG. JMO

J bass

7/28/2021 01:39:11 am

Oh get your of here you dam yankee.,

Thatcher

11/23/2021 08:30:51 pm

Thank you so much!!! Many people don't realize that Illinois actually has a lot of people that are involved in this type of thing just because of Chicago. I live in the very bottom tip of Illinois

Ed Carter

5/24/2022 10:54:23 am

I also fly mine and even veterans do not know what it is. Few have asked what it is or say it is one of the first US flags. I suggest they look up historical flags.

mike falkenstein

12/21/2019 02:47:13 pm

i was a re-enactor for 30 yrs-1st va-9th va-fluvanna artillery-i know the reasons and revere the glorious cause

Dale Rodgers

12/21/2019 04:31:27 pm

I reenact the Civil War going on 28 years. I enjoy the hobby, the comradeship. I had relatives who fought for the Confederacy, I love being a southerner.

Roger Brothers

12/21/2019 04:53:06 pm

All this is accurate except number one.

The original designer of the Confederate battle flag (William Porcher Miles) did not intend it as a Christian symbol. As a matter of fact he intended the exact opposite, and if he intended the Scottish national flag as some sort of model me never said so.

Miles was a confederate congressman and chairman of the committee on flags and seals. He at first favored an upright cross (Latin cross) on the flag but changed to the now familiar saltire in consideration of loyal Southern Jews who g
Told him they would prefer “the symbol of one religion not be made the symbol for the entire nation” Miles stated that this would avoid their (and some Christian sects) objections because the saltire was “more of a healdaric symbol than an ecclesiastical one

mike falkenstein

12/21/2019 06:27:30 pm

well remember this started as the battle flag of the army of northern virginia-adopted by the army of tennessee. the army of mississippi battle flag was different and also used the trans missippi. it was never a national flag.
the csa natioal was different there were three versions

Meade Skelton Haufe

12/21/2019 09:03:35 pm

The Army of Northern Virginia battle flag is based on the Cross of St. Andrew, so yes, it is a Christian symbol. That is probably why it is under attack so much.

Roger Brothers

12/27/2019 12:02:57 pm

Not according to the original designer.
Anything else is pure opinion and speculation

Roger Brothers

12/27/2019 05:51:19 pm

If the original designer had “the cross of st. Andrew” in mind he said nothing about it.

He did say he DID NOT intend his flag to be a Christian symbol.

Roger Brothers

12/27/2019 05:55:34 pm

http://history.furman.edu/benson/civwar/show/MilesFlagLetter.htm

John w king link

1/14/2020 07:17:31 pm

I love the confederates and the confederate that why I fly them southern cross

Kenny

12/21/2019 11:30:56 pm

What kind of bullshit is this. Yea I’d love to fly the flag of a loosing side. Also it’s racist

Gaston

12/22/2019 03:34:10 am

Reason number 13 is the intellect and character of its detractors, so well represented by Kenny's comment.

CWheat01

12/22/2019 04:09:23 am

Kenny, you OBVIOUSLY have very little knowledge of American History, since you say that the stars and bars is "racist"; But i will gladly enlighten you a little, and i will do so in a respectful manner, if you can keep this civil... Also, just because i am speaking truthfully about a controversial event from a pivotal time in our history, it does not mean that, in today's society, i would ever support that act, nor do i condone racism, in any form or fashion, from ANYONE (and, by the way, just so we are all clear on this, "Racism" is truthfully defined as "any behavior, by ANY person, that promotes the ideology that one race is superior to another, or seeks to show prejudice or animosity towards another simply based on the person's RACE," and is NEVER to be defined, as our country's last President (Obama) and his administration did, many times, as "a white person's prejudice against another race."

1) First of all, as abhorous as even the mere thought of slavery is today, it was considered commonplace, and part of "normal" societal behavior, basically, from the beginning of known history, until sometime after the American Civil War-- In fact, there are more slaves being kept, TODAY, in other places of the world, than were held at any point in our country, before, during, or after the Civil War... It has long been a practice for Empires, Countries, or even just feuding neighbors, when conquering their enemy in battle, to take the losing opponents as their slaves (as part of the whole "to the victors go the spoils" ideology), and to also, in past times, offer certain criminal elements a choice- to either die in prison, at the stockades, or by other means of capital punishment, or to be sold into slavery , thus giving the criminals a chance to remain alive, and to help them repay their debt to society, and help their families to remain in good, honorable standing ib their community...
2) Second, even though, by today's ethical standards, keeping Slaves is actually considered a part of HUMAN NATURE (if you don't believe me, simply Google the ant species "Formica Sanguinea", the "Polyergus Lucidus" Ant, the "Amazon Ant", or any of the many species of "slave-maker ants". Then, Google the Cuckoo Bee", the "Colombian Lesser-Black Tarantula",or any other of the many bees and spiders that take slaves-- Hell, even certain types of birds, apes, and lions take other animals as slaves... The difference is, we- as CIVILIZED human beings, have EVOLVED, and also are capable of rational moral and ethical thinking, so we were able to understand, over time, that holding slaves is not a practical thing...
3) since i have shown you that Many different societies (as well as SPECIES) have used slavery, it also has to be understood that there were slaves of many races and nationalities, so-- slavery, in and of itself, is not merely a product of a RACIST society...so... Simply stating that the Rebel Flag is Racist because of Slavery is Asinine (and, before you try to argue that, In America, slavery was racist because there were black slaves- DON'T EVEN TRY; In America, there has been evidence of Irish People, Native Americans, and even White People who were kept in servitude, so that argument doesn't hold water...
4) Which leaves you with the only real argument that is left, which is the old tried-and-true "that flag is racist because (1) it was flown on slave ships, or (2) the dreaded KKK used it in their marches.... Ooohwee.... So bad, that flag is so racist because someone carried it when doing heinous things, like the KKK, or bc Dylann Roof had a picture of him with the flag in the background, so that MUST make it Racist!!!' - uhm, NO... It doesn't...
You know what else these horrible people held when they did their terrible deeds? Well, the KKK ORIGINALLY carried the AMERICAN FLAG (there are many pics of around 100,000 members marching on the lawn of our White House, in full white clown suits, carrying ONLY American Flags, and - yep, that's right, you guessed it, BIBLES!!! (oh, the humanity!)--
Does that make the AMERICAN FLAG and the HOLY BIBLE symbols of hetred and racism????
Even Idiot Dylann Roof had a Bible when he shot up the SC Church... And, the slave ships carried the AMERICAN. Flags at the end of the practice, and NEVER OFFICIALLY flew a rebel flag...

mike falkenstein

12/22/2019 08:21:17 am

ahh kenny-you are so misinformed. it was a battle flag-no more brave men fighting against an ever over reaching-oppressive central goverment. to free the slaves was never part of the lincolnite agenda-it was only done to checkmate queen victoria who was about to declare war against the usa over the ill advised trent incident.
fyi the first known slave in america was a white man owned by a black

Sherry Sebren Pryor link

9/21/2020 05:50:05 am

this is so good. I would love to copy and paste this. Thank you so much. We really need this. There WERE white slaves, but that is intentionally forgotten and no one wants to mention it. Therefore slavery becomes not about black people. There are so many slaves being held today. Human trafficking is much much worse today with the resources they now have to hold these people and what they can do to these people. It is a shame that human trafficking and child trafficking is not considered the worst and that people are not out fighting for that rather than hanging around in the past which never allows us to move forward. You cannot move forward while constantly looking in the rearview mirror. You will eventually crash.

Jimmie Bacon

12/22/2019 09:59:41 am

Can you not read and comprehend what you read the biggest racist is you sir for automatically saying so with out reading the whole article.

mike falkenstein

12/22/2019 10:06:06 am

jimmy you have to be a democrat brainwashed by todays education system. will not debate you. you simply lack the knowledge to have a rational, mature, informed discussion on this subject. really feel sorry for you.

Crystal link

6/14/2020 01:48:29 pm

Anthony Johnson (b. c. 1600 – d. 1670) was a black Angolan known for achieving freedom and wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia.He was one of the first African American property owners and had his right to legally own a slave recognized by the Virginia courts.

Anthony Powell

12/23/2019 07:05:45 am

'Loosing' side? Must have attended public school in the imperial capital!

Sherry Pryor

1/14/2020 08:33:05 pm

the flag is not meant to be racist. The word racism and racist is thrown around loosely these days. The flag was just a battle flag that the south used as their flag. Many African Americans willingly fought for this flag. They were smart enough to see what was about to happen. It was just a battle flag. It is just a flag. It had a different meaning for each different person I think. The war started because the north was going to tax the south for all the resources we sold to them during the winter months because they could not produce as much in the winter as we could up there in the snow. That would not have helped anyone. It started all about money...MONEY...Abraham Lincoln chose to bring about the ending of slavery later in the war. The southerners had already started meetings on how to end slavery because the north was going to beat out the south if they didn't start using more machinery to work rather than human energy. They could see that coming. They were trying to do it in a more organized way that would not put them out on the streets. Abraham did not think it through, and people were put out on the streets. some were women alone with their children. some asked to stay but the southerners could not keep them, as it was now against the law.. "Where do we go? What do we do? Some died, some made it, some were abused. some sold themselves into prostitution. a lot has not been told, but if you knew what Abraham really wanted to do with all those slave...he was assassinated before he could pull that one together. it was a serous, very serious time, and you want to worry over a flag. I bet the slaves would roll over in their graves if they heard all the hoopla about a flag when they were put out onto the streets. some were glad and happy to be free until they realized they were homeless and had nothing.. It's just a flag. Racist? I think the people who are calling it racist...throwing out the word racism at every turn, are actually the racists.

john

6/17/2020 01:20:31 pm

they were given 40 acres and a mule and became sharecroppers. Lincoln only wanted to stop the expansion of slavery to the western territories initially.It was the south that fired the first shots at FT. Sumpter not an overbearing central government.

Tylet

5/28/2020 02:54:14 am

So what if we lost, dosen't mean its racist

mike falkenstein

5/28/2020 05:18:48 am

can you liberal democrat karens comprehend nothing?? it was a battle flag carried by brave soldiers, fighting for a noble cause. states rights, and to stop an over reaching infringing federal goverment

Mark Pearson

6/14/2020 06:09:49 am

There is always someone who wants to throw this remark in about the Confederate "Battle Flag" in as a symbol for being "Racist". Time to get over yourself and your close minded opinion about a Flag of the Past. You want to instill your Beliefs and Haltered on everyone else. You want to change History and the Past and wipe it out, instead of learning it. Just because a "Few" adopted a "Flag" for their symbol of their group does not mean that is what it stands for! Remember Senator Byrd was the Grand Wizard of the KKK, the Head of the Democratic Party, but I guess you embrace that and that is acceptable! Start being an American. I don't know about you, I don't live in Beijing China!

mike falkenstein

6/14/2020 12:50:33 pm

Mark you said it so much better than i. i was a battle flag carried by brave and good men who fought for the glorious cause. slavery was never an issue except to the abolitionist fanatics of the north-who launched an armed incursion into a soverign state. i. e. john brown.
it is a flag with a glorious and storied past.
however what these craze loon liberals-ignorant of their history and every day erasing-as orwell predicted. are the useful idiots of the globalists/nwo.
they do not know the battle flag had nothing to do with racism-it existed so the generals couold see where their troops were on the black powder smoke coverede battlefields of the 19th centuary,
right now i have the stars and stipes flying from my flag pole with a csa 2d national under it and below the anv battle flag of my ancestors-get over it. we in the south are not racists we are proud of our past-tou quisling millenials have no0 idea what you are talking about.

Carl La Rue

8/1/2020 10:46:00 am

Why is everything got to be racist? I live in WV where many brothers fought against each other for their cause of what they believed in, I doubt if very many if any of the Southern soldiers who did the fighting owned slaves, because only the wealthy plantation owners owned slaves, They could buy their sons out of the war or be able to keep them a safe distance from harms way, just like today. most of the poor white Southerners had to compete for jobs with the slaves picking cotton. The ones to blame are the money grabbing slave traders who would kidnap these poor folks from their native country, many of whom were sold by their own greedy people, brought to America and other places on slave ships under very cruel crowded conditions, many flying the American flags, so what part of the honorable Rebel Flag is racist I ask? I am proud of our Southern American heritage, as I am also proud of Ol' Gloria, The stars and stripes for which has proved itself down through the years, and many, myself included, followed it into battle.

Carl La Rue

9/30/2020 07:19:50 pm

I really don't care who design the great rebel flag, it what became the symbol for all southerners who will never let the south be forgotten, it was a proven fact that the south had better military officers, but were agriculture, the north was industrious, that is mostly what cause the south to loose, and it's the ones who still condemns the south who are the racists not the southerners, there are more people of color still living in the south then in the north. I still believe in the southern beliefs but I also stand for the American stars and stripes having been a veteran during the late 60's gives me that right, we sure were racist southern and northern black and white served then and many died and what do those ball players do bow down in protest against ol' glory, people came together from all walks of life and I am one to say, I had many black friends that I would rather go in battle with then many of those million dollar ball players and you sissies who call southerners racists when that's what you are yourselves.

Jeff

7/29/2021 04:05:25 am

Racist? The typical liberal fallback statement of someone who has nothing to contribute to a debate. Are you aware that blacks also fought for the CSA and earned their freedom? Are you aware that there was a large amount of Native American Indigenous units in the CSA (mainly cavalry units of Cherokee, Choctaw, and Seminole)? Are you also aware there were a significant amount of Chinese that also fought for the CSA? I didn’t think so. Do some actual research before commenting in a discussion: facts outweigh feelings. The CSA seceded not because of slavery-that was a by-product of the reason. The reason was because of federal infringement of states’ rights…kind of similar of what we’re seeing with federal government overreach today. Remember the simple historical FACT that in 1775 the federal government was created by the states-not the other way around. So, don’t enter a discussion you’re uneducated on with the simple “racist” comment-it’s weak. Go read a book or two, then come back and join the adult discussion.

Matthew Tuggle

12/22/2019 08:40:33 am

Amen fly it High and and fly it Proud

Beth Wardell

12/22/2019 06:36:35 pm

Amen!!! Will be sharing this with anyone willing to read it!!!

Anthony Powell

12/23/2019 07:16:53 am

In Dixie land I'll take my stand...

mike falkenstein

12/23/2019 02:00:15 pm

anthony powell well said count on me also

Anthony Powell

12/24/2019 07:28:09 am

From 1861-1865 Southerners valiantly defended their country against a brutal and vicious invasion by Lincoln's U.S. military. Being an unreconstructed Southerner, I will not forget that fact as long as I live.

mike falkenstein

12/24/2019 11:08:12 am

anthony i stand with you

john

6/17/2020 01:24:20 pm

south fired the first shots at FT. Sumpter

Alexander Grant

11/12/2022 12:50:04 pm

So, where do you live, Igor?

Douglas Haga

12/27/2019 12:07:35 pm

I love this flag..have for 66 years..and it is the battle flag of the army of Northern Virginia...

Alexander Grant

11/12/2022 12:49:12 pm

The flag of traitors. Yes.

Jeanne V. Peacock

5/29/2024 10:04:38 pm

Alexander Grant: We are not traitors, nr were our ancestors! You are showing your ignorance, sir!

Charles Hollingsworths

12/28/2019 12:13:14 pm

My gr gr grandfather, Pvt Timothy Hollingsworth, CSA, fought bravely for his beloved South. He was imprisoned twice at Point Lookout, Maryland under the most deplorable conditions. He and his compatriots were forced to pitch tents on the beaches there as the tide came in and out. Many starved to death. By the grace of God, Timothy returned home after the war.
THAT’S why I fly and forward the colors, not as an act of racism, not as an act of hatred, but as an act of honor and respect to those who made sacrifices for their homes, families and neighbors.
Deo Vindice!

Alexander Grant

11/12/2022 12:48:49 pm

They were lucky. Treason is punishable by death.

Joe Jordan

1/2/2020 04:55:05 pm

Two of my ancestors died under that flag. Another lost a leg. We must remember that the slaves crossed the Atlantic on ships flying the Stars and Stripes or the British Union Jack.

Alexander Grant

11/12/2022 12:48:05 pm

=] Why stop remembering there? Then the Stars and Stripes pulled its head out of its @ss, but the South preferred to keep its head up there.

Jeanne V. Peacock

5/29/2024 10:13:28 pm

Alexander Grant: Now you are showing your stupidity!!! YOU are the hater & the rascist! Such venom & vitriol for your Southern brothers & sisters! Just remember that hate is an acid that eventually destroys the vessel that contains it!

Teresa Jones link

1/14/2020 12:30:48 am

The "rebel" flag was not flown to show racism. The Civil War was fought over state's rights, not slavery. President Lincoln introduced the Proclamation of Emancipation to free all slaves in 1863. Two years after the war started. Lincoln was using this as a leverage to be re-elected as president. He was assassinated first. So, there was no racism intended by the rebel flag.

mike falkenstein

1/14/2020 09:47:49 am

lincoln also signed that proclamation to check mate queen victoria. she was in a fighting mood over the trent incident. and already sent 9 regiments to canada with more to follow. france would have come in also against the lincolnites. the proclamation made lincoln war of aggression that no one could intgerfere with.
after all queen victoria and france could hardly begin conscription and raise taxes to wage a war on the side who had slaves. thats all that piece of paper was.
if you research and get in to 1st hand accounts it had been discovered that it was more economical to free the slave and hire him back as a free man. this was in motion until lincoln started the was and de-railed the process. slavery would have died a natural death in 5-10 years. also many negro free men fought in the confederate ranks-eye witness accounts can be in battles and leaders

john

6/17/2020 01:27:54 pm

yes states rights to own slaves. Lincoln was reelected first the murdered

Alexander Grant

11/12/2022 12:46:06 pm

Exactly. Slave-owning. Treason. Murder. And humiliating defeat. All Southern values. And they wonder why they have the shortest average lifespans, highest per capita violent crime rates and the shortest average lifespan in the country. Stupid is as stupid does.

Andy McWilliams, D.D.

1/14/2020 04:44:59 am

I fly several, just because they say I can’t. And also to honor two 2x grandfathers and one 3x who fought for our Southern independence.

Alexander Grant

11/12/2022 12:42:42 pm

They committed treason, fought for rich men's right to own slaves and were defeated in humiliating fashion. Tell the whole story.

mike falkenstein

1/15/2020 10:31:27 am

first look up the tillman tariff protected the industrialized north ruined the agricultural south. imposed by the senate. this made the issue of states comming in to the union as free or slave so the south would not be furher opressed. by being outvoted. they wanted to maintain an equal balance. this bitterly opposed in the north. bleeding kansas was bleeding because of the fanatic prfeacher henry ward beecher sending beechers bibles to kansas-rifles for abolitionists to shoot down any one who disagreed with them.the crazed murderer john brown came out of this funded by northern abolitionists he invaded virginia to incite a bloody insurrection. his daughter-who never left boston wrote the propaganda book uncle toms xcabin. nothing could be further from the truth. lee did not own slaves nor beleive in slavery. those at arlington house belonged to his wife-inherited from her father. he did all he could to free them-sending as many as possible to the quakers in pennsylvia until they would takde no more.many refused to be freed-they considered arlington their home and wanted to go no where else-refusal. what has been lost her is this is not a REBEL FLAG it is a battle flag. adopted after 1st manassas so the armies could identify each other, and avoid friendly fire in the heavy smoke of a battle where thousands of black powder weapons were being fired simultaneously. anything that could be remotly called a rebel flag were the 1st, 2d, 3d nationals. none of which seems to be included in this conversation. last we here in the south respect and fly the battle and national flags. you intolerant yankees and liberals get over it. you are intruding again into our affairs just like in 1860. stay out of our affairs

Carl LaRue

6/16/2020 03:00:18 am

I am from West Virginia , my ancestor story starts with my fifth great grand father who married a wealthy Virginia patent land owner's daughter and was a southerner, he and his wife inherited five hundred acres of a one thousand acre track when her father passed in 1851 still part of Virginia then . There is a complete story to all this for which I will only going to reveal a part of it at this time concerning my forefather's senior years of his life. You see, in the late 1800,s there was a droit in what became West Virginia, which put a great Burdon on the farmers. the new state now was part of the USA, right after the war taxes on this property went from one dollar a year to $20., Now the counties collected taxes and the ones that couldn.t pay the taxes could work on the county roads, very hard labor to pay their new taxes, but my 5th g-grandfather now up in years with poor health was not able to work, ,had his land put up for taxes, tax commissioners were assigned by the county to deal with it (carpetbaggers) they would take the tax delinquent land not being allowed to buy it themselves would get a relative to pay the taxes and get the land before it would go up for auction, realizing that this land would become very valuable in time , but in a court of chancery, my grand father somehow got the money and the taxes were paid on record in what is now the Greenbrier county court . Now my 5th great grand father disappeared without a trace, no death records, nothing. At that time the land was least out to a timber company for ten years, and then sold by the timber company to others, and my great grand father's cabin was burned to the ground, the stone chummily fell in on the location where the cabin stood.. This the way that ordinary people, was treated by the Northern influence. This story is very true according to my extensive research and like I said there is much more to this story, much more, because this is still happening to the property, end for now to be continued.. Thank you..

Carl K. La Rue

6/19/2020 01:03:25 am

I would like to hear from others with stories like this from the civil war that pitted brother against brother but has ended several years ago which nobody today was alive then black or white southern or northern, we are all Americans now but everyone should be able to keep one thing from that time and that is the right to respect their Historical past to display symbols of that time or any other time, and use the knowledge that that war Rebel or Yankee, was hell on earth and we should have learned that, we should never fight among ourselves again, ever. We should set an example for the rest of the world to follow. and whether you believe it or not, that may be what God wants us to do.

Tommy Stokes

7/10/2020 01:14:13 pm

My great great grand father fought in that war and I am proud of him even though I never met him. People should stop and think about all the turmoil going on today.We the people were created by one and only one creator and that is GOD ALMIGHTY.We ought to come together as one people a sing that old song We are the world we are the people instead looting rioting robbing and murdering our fellow countrymen.

Steve Ray link

7/18/2021 11:50:22 am

The Confederate Battle flag was used after the original Confederate flag was determined to be confusing to the troops in battle. They would get confused as to which flag, union or confederate to rally around. It was designed to keep some of the same characteristics of the union flag, but be seperate and easily identifiable for the troops. The flags, both union and confereate were used to identify where their commander was locasted so to follow his orders.

Jay Carl Tripple

10/19/2022 06:54:55 pm

If you think us Yankees slighted you and you are salty as hell still, start another confederate army and we'll do it again and I'll guarantee the same outcome you dumbass rednecks.

Alexander Grant

11/12/2022 12:39:21 pm

100% factual. -- a Yankee, by choice, and former parachute infantry light weapons sergeant

Alexander Grant

11/12/2022 12:36:30 pm

Lol...how many of you clowns ever served in combat arms in the military? You know less than nothing about either fighting or war. Your grandfathers were either slave-owning traitors or the white trash traitors that served them. You don't even have the sense to be ashamed of their humiliating cause and their even more humiliating defeat. Please, rise again, so we can finish it the right way this time. =] My advice? When you rise up, wear a red 5.11 fatboy polo and some poop-brown husky boy 'tactical' (snicker) pants. -- a former parachute infantryman and former federal law enforcement national security special investigator, the grandson of former Continental, Union and Allied Army soldiers...and a descendant of both the treasonous Jefferson Davis and the mass-murdering JS Mosby

Dodge Harrigan link

11/7/2024 01:19:25 pm

God Save The CSA

Dodge Harrigan link

11/7/2024 01:21:55 pm

https://www.facebook.com/bentcsa

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Susan Lee is from Richmond, Virginia, and is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University. She helped found the Virginia Flaggers, a group which has gained national attention for its activities in defense of the Confederate battle flag, and is responsible for erecting 29 large battle flags along the roadways of Virginia. She is a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy, and has received multiple awards for her efforts in defense of the Confederate cause.

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