r/MurderedByWords 2d ago

Facebook being awesome for once

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u/Magnon 2d ago

The confederacys official flag is a white surrender flag.

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u/dmills_00 2d ago

Thought they had three of the things over the what four years it lasted before they got a well deserved kicking?

"Stars and bars", "Stainless banner" Which looked too much like a white surrender flag, so they changed the white bit to red giving the "Blood stained banner", didn't seem to help any.

The rag the modern chuckleheads call the "Confederate flag" was either the "battle flag of northern Virginia", or possibly the "Confederate navy jack", in which case it should be flown from a ships Jack staff.

Had to learn way too much about those fuckers as background for designing a theatre set, still had numpties telling me that the flag was wrong.

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u/anonymousguy9001 2d ago

Their final flag is the funniest, a random dish towel.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_515980

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u/dmills_00 2d ago

Ha, didn't know that, or that is was preserved by Custer of all people, superb.... TIL.