Reply #60: For most of the people here...... [View All]

[Elminster]

Seems that the flag you people want to do away with is what is
known as the Confederate Battle flag.

This one.
This is the Navy Jack flown by the Confederate Navy.
Most of you believe this to be the only flag of the Confederacy.
You are wrong.
Here is another flag.

This is the first National Flag of the Confederacy.
Here is another.

This it the second National Flag of the Confederacy.
And finally..

The third National Flag of the Confederacy.

These are, if I am right, all the flags used by the Confederacy.
I may be wrong but most of you people here would not know this
because you do not study the history of this country much less the
Civil War.
Trust me when I say much more wrong was done under the banner of
"Old Glory" than under the "Stars and Bars".
Much of the reason that the Civil war, or The war of Northern
Aggression for you yanks, was fought was purely political in
nature. Was slavery part of it, yes but not a huge part.
The biggest reason the war was fought was over the rights for the
southern states to secede from the Union, pure and simple.
Both the North AND the South had slaves at that time.
Here in later years it's easier for the subject of slavery to be
blamed as the cause for that war.
Black troops fought on BOTH sides of the conflict. And died under
both flags fighting for what they thought was the survival for
their way of life.
Say what you will but that's it in a nutshell.