Despite all the noise about "heritage," South Carolina just doesn't know its flag history
The flag which South Carolina flew as a confederate state was essentially its current flag
The Confederacy regarded itself as a union of sovereign states, and the current South Carolina flag would have been the flag South Carolina's veterans thought they were fighting to defend
There were, at different times, three different official flags for the Confederate States of America. The first looked like this (with seven stars originally and ultimately thirteen):
But this was too easily confused with the US flag and in 1863 was replaced by this:
This, on windless days, was too easily confused with a truce/surrender banner and so in early March 1865 was replaced by this:
Lee surrendered at Appomatox Courthouse about a month later
The flag people often call "the Confederate flag" wasn't that at all. It started as the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia
In later efforts to standardize designs, the Army of Northern Virginia battle flag later reappeared reshaped as the Confederate Naval Jack (using a lighter blue color) and as the battle flag for the Army of Tennessee
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