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Confedetate Flag and Seal
[D]uring the
first session
of the Provisional Congress the subject of a flag occupied much of the
attention of that body. Designs were invited and numerous model
flags
were received from all portions of the Confederacy and submitted to the
Committee on the Flag and Seal, but for various reasons the Committee
were
unable to adopt any of the designs presented, and Congress was on the
eve
of adjourning without a Confederate flag when necessity compelled them,
almost impromptu, to adopt our present flag. Since then the
subject has been frequently discussed in Congress and by the press, but
neither have been able to agree upon a substitute for the flag to which
all object on account of its resemblance to that of the abolition
despotism
against which we are fighting. |
To avoid the evil consequences growing out of a confusion of flags on
the
battlefield, Gen. Beauregard adopted the Southern cross or battle flag,
which has so grown to favor with the army as to be now almost
universally
substituted in the field for the "stars and bars".
... Our
idea is simply to
combine the present battle flag with a pure white standard sheet, our
Southern
cross, blue, on a red field, to take the place in the white flag that
is
occupied by the blue union in the old United States flag or the St.
George's
cross in the British flag. As a people, we are fighting to
maintain
the heaven ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior
or colored race. A white flag, would thus be emblematical of our
cause.
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