The Stars and Bars was the official Confederate flag until May 1863. It was replaced by a white banner with the battle flag in an upper corner, a version that flies at the Florida Capitol in ...

Sir, – Simon Carswell referred to the controversial flag used by the Confederacy in the US Civil War as the "Stars and Bars" (American Letter, June 27th). While the first official national flag ...

Lately I have noticed more Stars and Bars flags displayed; perhaps I am just more aware of them. There have been lots of reasons given for displaying these symbols but in reality there are only ...

Comics Stars and Bars and Cartoons: High-flying reactions to this Confederate Flag flap June 24, 2015 More than 10 years ago Summary By Michael Cavna ...

The flag — the “Stars and Bars” national flag, not the Battle Flag — was added by a heritage group in 2013. A teenager got the OK to put up the flagpole.

The racist massacre in a South Carolina church has tipped the balance in a decades-old tug of war over the meaning of the Confederate battle flag.

The American flag, of course, had 13 red and white strips and a blue field with stars in it. The Confederate flag had three bars, red, white, red and a blue field with stars on it.

Once again The Sun has demonstrated its myopic and erroneous view of history (“Retire the flag,” June 23). The Stars and Bars is not the Confederate Battle Flag. The Stars and Bars is t… ...

"The flag with the nine stars was one version of the Confederacy's first national flag, often called the "Stars and Bars" (in use 1861-63)," Paul Quigley told Newsweek.

Object Details Description Physical Description Red, white, and blue cloth. General History The Confederate battle flag was born of necessity after the Battle of Bull Run. Amid the smoke and general ...