The original Confederate flag’s similarity to the Union flag quickly confused soldiers, who often couldn’t tell the difference between the two on smoke-filled battlefields. Confederate Gen.

As the Confederate flag was lowered from outside ... That flag caused confusion on the battlefield for its close resemblance to the Union flag, Kaye said. The runner-up in the contest was a ...

The official flag went through a series of changes in attempts to distinguish Confederate from Union troops. The Confederacy would ultimately adopt the "Southern Cross" as its battle flag ...

Misinformation about the antebellum South, the Civil War, and the Confederate flag is rife on the internet. Perhaps nowhere more so than in a widespread and ironically titled "Truth about ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- For the first time since the civil rights movement, the Confederate ... believed the flag would fly indefinitely in this state, which was the first to leave Union, but the ...

The Confederate cause is deeply ingrained ... and Lee going up against each other with their requisite flags," he added, noting Lee's Union counterpart, Gen. Ulysses Grant, who later became ...

Concerned over friendly fire due to the similarities in the Union and Confederate flags, the Confederacy's military took a rejected flag idea and began to use it in battle. The Confederate Battle ...

But as secession got underway, the Confederate States of America adopted a flag that riffed off the Union’s stars and stripes. Known as the “Stars and Bars,” the flag featured a white star ...

Union Marylanders flew the black-and-gold Calvert flag, the heraldry of the Calvert family that founded the Maryland colony. Confederate Marylanders flew the white-and-red Crossland flag ...