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As to the color, that should also have meaning. If we adopted blue, it would be said that our affairs looked blue. The white in the flag signified purity and truth - Confederate Congressman Alexander Boteler. Then we would have the Battle Flag of glorious memories, and a white field signifying purity, truth, and freedom.
Use: National flag : Proportion: 2:3: Adopted: March 4, 1865: Design: A white rectangle, one-and-a-half times as wide as it is tall, a red vertical stripe on the far right of the rectangle, a red quadrilateral in the canton, inside the canton is a blue saltire with white outlining, with thirteen white five-pointed stars of equal size inside the saltire.
Summary. Description. Flag of the Confederate States of America (1863–1865).svg. Aspect ratio: 1:2. English: Flag of the Confederate States of America (May 1, 1863 – March 4, 1865). The second national flag of the Confederate States of America, also known as "The Stainless Banner", the "Jackson Flag", and the "White Man's Flag". Date. 1 May ...
Pastor Donald Hoover of the Tappan Reformed Church speaks at the ceremony dedicating Tappan's Field of Honor, a display of hundreds of large flags on the church's Manse Lawn, on May 18, 2024.
The “appeal to heaven flag” shows a green pine on a white field and the use of the flags at the homes of Justice Alito has intensified concerns regarding his impartiality as the court hears ...
A white flag displayed during the Ottoman surrender of Jerusalem to the British on 9 December 1917. The white flag is an internationally recognized protective sign of truce or ceasefire, and for negotiation. It is also used to symbolize surrender, since it is often the weaker party that requests negotiation.
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Beginning on July 7, 1834, New York City was torn by a huge antiabolitionist riot (also called Farren Riot or Tappan Riot) that lasted for nearly a week until it was put down by military force. "At times the rioters controlled whole sections of the city while they attacked the homes, businesses, and churches of abolitionist leaders and ...