That and the Rebel flag (as I've read and heard Southerners call it) was a flag that was used in battle and from what brief research I've done, never flew over any Confederate government offices.
“never flew over any Confederate government offices.”
Hey, I didn’t know that! Thanks.
You are correct, sir. What people think of as “the Confederate flag” today actually never existed in the CSA—it’s a post-war combination of the coloration of the Army of Northern Virginia battle flag, with the configuration of the Confederate Navy’s second naval jack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederacy
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correct
the flag was designed to distinguish the two sides.
the stars and bars was too close in sight to the northern flag and so in battle there were cases where men got confused and one battle where they started to kill each other