Alabama Civil War Period Flag Collection
WEBThis is an updated version of "Documenting the Civil War Period Flag Collection at the Alabama Department Of Archives and History," a report originally prepared in January 1997 by Robert B. Bradley, curator at the ADAH:
Flag of Alabama - Wikipedia
WEBMany have noted that a saltire also appears in flags used decades earlier by the Confederate States of America, a group of states, including Alabama, that declared secession and warred against the United States during the American Civil War. No documentation in the legislative records indicates the Alabama flag was intended to commemorate the ...
Alabama Civil War Period Flag Collection: 1st Alabama Infantry
WEBThe flag of the 1st Alabama Infantry was made in Montgomery, Alabama, sometime after March 4, 1861. The flag is identical to the original Confederate national flag raised on that date except that it has a map of Alabama in the center of the circle of seven stars.
Flags of Alabama - Confederate Flags
WEBThe illustration of the flag on this page is based upon eye witness accounts and an examination of the surviving fragments of the flag. Since the return of the flag in 1939, it has been incorrectly referred to as the “Republic of Alabama” flag in various publications and newspaper accounts.
Alabama Secession Convention flag
WEBUpon approval of the Legislature, the flag was officially returned to the State of Alabama. The flag was returned in a special ceremony on March 9, 1939 before a joint session of the Alabama Senate and Legislature held in the Alabama House of Representatives.
Flag of Alabama | Meaning, Colors & Design | Britannica
WEBDuring the Civil War (1861–65) an unofficial flag of blue with a yellow or white star represented the separation of Alabama from the Union. Another blue flag flew over the state capitol; its obverse side showed the state seal flanked by a woman holding the unofficial flag, while its reverse side featured a cotton plant and a coiled snake.
CONTENTdm - Alabama
WEBIn several postwar accounts it is referred to as "the cotton bale flag." The reverse of the flag is an 11 star first national Confederate flag. This flag was among the 10 company flags carried by the 4th Alabama Infantry during a dress parade at Harper's Ferry in June 1861.
Alabama in the American Civil War - Wikipedia
WEBAlabama was central to the Civil War, with the secession convention at Montgomery, the birthplace of the Confederacy, inviting other slaveholding states to form a southern republic, during January–March 1861, and to develop new state constitutions.
Documenting the Civil War Period Flag Collection - Alabama
WEBThis is an on-line version of the report prepared in January 1997 by Robert B. Bradley, Curator, Special Collections, Alabama Department of Archives and History. The report is supplemented by color images of the flags when an image is available. Researchers may order a copy of the flag photographs using the photograph order form.
Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama Emblems: State Flag
WEBFrom March 4, 1861 until General James H. Wilson's occupation of Montgomery in April 1865, a Confederate National Flag was flown, either the First National Flag or the Second National Flag. After the end of the Civil War, the United States Flag …