Confederate Memorial

[cavscout]

This is the "Stars and Bars" (number of stars could be 7, 12 or 13)



This is the Battle Flag



and this is the current GA flag

[jForrester]

Cousin Forrester,

Is that you with the SC Colour Guard for the CSS Hunley ceremony as seen on the Forrester Family website?

Yes, it is. I am Captain of the Guard (Was First Sgt. back then), and am currently 2nd Brigade Lt. Commander of South Carolina SCV. BTW: Our 16th South Carolina Color Guard will lead the flags at the opening ceremonies of the SCV National Convention later this month.

[jForrester]

Excellent, cavscout. Thanks. I might add that the Stars and Bars was the initial national flag. (Equivalent of the Stars and Stripes of the U.S.) The battle flag (aka Southern Cross) was just that; a strictly military flag with no political or sovereignity significance.

[The Guy in the Kilt at UC]

I didn't say they "all" are PC. But it cannot be denied that many are.

"The victor writes the history books." That's the way it has always been. And always will be.

I have never known a politically correct professor in my 10 years of school spanning 3 colleges.

[macwilkin]

Excellent, cavscout. Thanks. I might add that the Stars and Bars was the initial national flag. (Equivalent of the Stars and Stripes of the U.S.) The battle flag (aka Southern Cross) was just that; a strictly military flag with no political or sovereignity significance.

And to add to this: some scholars believe that the First National's designer, Nicola Marschall, may have based the "Stars & Bars" on the flag of Austria. William P. Miles, a Confederate Congressman and Chair of the "Committee of Flag & Seal", rejected the First National, due to its resemblance to not only "Old Glory", but also to the flags of Liberia and the Kingdom of Hawaii. Miles made some fairly perjorative remarks about how the Confederacy's flag should not be similar to that of a nation of freed slaves and the other of savages, yet his own design was rejected by the Committee as looking like a "pair of suspenders" -- Miles is generally credited as the designer of the "Confederate flag", although there are many variations found in the various commands of the rebel army.

T.

[Lallans]

I have never known a politically correct professor in my 10 years of school spanning 3 colleges.

Exactly the opposite of my experience, and that was 30 years ago. The difference must lie in our definitions.

[jForrester]

Exactly the opposite of my experience, and that was 30 years ago. The difference must lie in our definitions.

Agree.

[Lallans]

This is the "Stars and Bars" (number of stars could be 7, 12 or 13)



This is the Battle Flag



and this is the current GA flag

Most complete and enlightening, thank you. If a year-old memory is correct, the Stars and Bars looks very much, but not precisely, like one of the commemorative Confederate flags sold at the Gettysburg Battlefield museum- now I understand the origin of that one better.

[macwilkin]

Exactly the opposite of my experience, and that was 30 years ago. The difference must lie in our definitions.

Agree.

Come and take one of my classes.

T.

[Lallans]

Come and take one of my classes.

T.

You might not want to invite the Forresters ganging up on you. But I'm sure you could handle it.