Designed by
William Porcher Miles, the chairman of the Flag and Seal committee, a now-popular variant of the Confederate flag was rejected as the national flag in 1861. It was instead adopted as a battle flag by the Army of Northern Virginia under
General Lee.
[30] Despite never having historically represented the CSA as a country nor officially recognized as one of the national flags, it is commonly referred to as "
the Confederate Flag" and has become a widely recognized symbol of
the American south.
[31] It is also known as the
rebel flag,
Dixie flag, and
Southern cross and is often incorrectly referred to as the "Stars and Bars" (the actual "Stars and Bars" is the first national flag, which used an entirely different design).
[32] The self-declared Confederate enclave of
Town Line, New York, lacking a genuine Confederate flag, flew a version of this flag prior to its 1946 vote to ceremonially rejoin the Union.
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