Can someone give me some information on he confederate and confederate flag?

Question

on someone's elses topic, they were talking about the confederates and stuff like that, but I'm hereing alot of views, what do you think?

Answer 1

The confederacy had the right to leave the United States --it's a right specifically listed in the Constitution. This is why Jefferson Davis, who was held in custody after the war from 1865 to 1867,l was released without trial nor conviction -- he didn't commit treason.

To win the war, the North "cracked" the Constitution with paper money, states admitted during wartime, special terrorism legislation (sound familiar?) and a suspension of habeus corpus. These are the seeds of dictatorship that tick away at our freedom to this very day.

The South COULD NOT grow up and sunset slavery to avoid war. I'm proud to say that the places I've lived for mnany years until I ran away to the West for retirement -- Alexandria and Fairfax County and Richmond (all in Virginia) voted AGAINST succession because they saw the handwriting on the wall and had more to lose than to gain. I think they also saw the coming bloodbath: More people died in the Civil War than all of America's other wars --combined! In Maryland and Virgina, where I lived for many years, the rivers and creeks running downhill to the Chesapeake Bay ran red with human blood for days after a battle.

The Confederacy as a government was a whorehouse of idiotic bigots who didn't even know how to fart quietly. What a mess! Hopelessly incompetent --a story that has never been properly told. The South as a nation wouldn't have lasted five months without Robert E. Lee.

Speaking of fools, the North nearly wussied out and was going to offer a deal to the South because of all the casualties! The most cowardly of the union generals, McClellan, was way ahead to win in 1864 on a peace at any price democratic ticket. Nine weeks before the election, Atlanta fell and Lincoln was re-elected for prosecuting the war in spite of it meaning political suicide for him. Without Lincoln, the United States would never have become a world power and the Germans would have won WW I.

My point: both the North and the South lost the Civil War.

The confederate flag --everyone has f*ck*d this up hopelessly.

The actual "confederate flag" is a blue DOUBLE-TRIANGLE with a white star in the middle of it. This is the flag flying above Atlanta in the matte painting of the seige of Atlanta shown in "Gone WIth the Wind":

"Hurrah! Hurah! For Southern rights, hurrah!
Hurrah for the bonny blue flag that wears the single star!"

--Southern national anthem

A red flag with blue diagonal cross containing 13 stars was the confederate BATTLE FLAG used exclusively by the soldiers in combat. It stood for gallantry in battle and for civility (no stealing of crops or harassing of civilians, especially in the North, a long-standing Southern and American fighting tradition "W" has abandoned in the Iraqi conflict... to his shame and ultimate undoing...)

Unfortunately, the Ku Klux Klan expropriated the Confederate Battle Flag after the war as a symbol of on-going defiance as if it were the symbol of the confederal government and of the inherent inferiority of ****** --which was the position of the formal Confederate government --but had nothing to do wtih the battle flag and its proper use, which was on the battlefield itself.

So the Confederate flag issue is a hopeless mess that is based on misinformation and reaches fever pitch at times.

Answer 2

The Confederate States of America (also referred to as the Confederate States, CSA, and the Confederacy) existed from 1861 to 1865 in North America; it was formed by the 11 slave states that seceded[1] from the United States of America, because of State's rights issues including the future of slavery. The United States ("Union") held that secession was illegal, and refused to recognize the Confederacy or negotiate with it. The American Civil War broke out when Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1861. None of the European powers officially recognized the Confederacy, but British commerical interests sold it warships and operated blockade runners to help supply it.

Answer 3

I have two flag poles in my front yard solely for the purpose of flying Confederate flags. I do so for two reasons. One is that the Confederacy is a HUGE part of American history, like it or not, and, being in Texas, it's a HUGE part of Texas history as well. The South's cultural makeup and Texas' makeup is very much wrapped up in the Confederacy as well, and so the history and culture of where I've lived all my life forces me to be curious and interested and respectful as well, of the biggest force in American history to almost end this great country, and change the history of the world. The Confederacy had it's good points and bad points, just like countries all over the world, and so I'm not against studying it and revering it since it was so powerful. As an historian, I have studied countries all over the world from the historical, political and geographical points of view. So, I fly the Confederate flags proudly since I was raised in an area of it's former existence, and I fly my U.S. flag as well. God Bless you.

Answer 4

I have no problem with the Confederate Battle Flag, My Question is I know each star is a State is Maryland the Center Star on the Confederate Battle Flag? I was watching something on youtube and a they said that star was for the State of Maryland? is this T/F.

Answer 5

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