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To: xzins
Nor did the confederate flag represent the confederacy.

Then why would you call it the confederate flag?

41 posted on 07/08/2015 7:05:51 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
because that's what it's called

Here's the 25th Virginia Infantry Regimental flag. It was used, with other types of communication, in a time of large masses of troops to control movements of one's own unit on a chaotic battlefield.


43 posted on 07/08/2015 7:13:03 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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