Miles's concluding paragraph to Beauregard begins with my favorite line in the letter: "But I am boring you with my pet hobby in the matter of the flag. The Real Meaning of the Confederate Flag Submitted by Scott D. Just good, sound artistic principles within a body of established tradition here-with a few politico-religious considerations thrown in. Andrew's Cross of Scotland, because of the vast sea of Scots-Irish farmers who supposedly formed the backbone of the Confederate Army, doesn't enter into it. It's worth pointing out that the commonly repeated bit of lore that the flag's design stems from the St. I was unsure how to account for the fimbriations, the white borders of the cross, and occupied myself for hours sometimes in shifting this subordinary back and forth through my primitive blazon. Gules, a saltire azure charged with thirteen mullets argent. So here, as a special first look at Griswoldville, is what Georgie comes up with: Entertain yourself sometime with more complicated ones. Thus, the flag of England is Argent, a cross gules and the flag of Scotland is Azure, a saltire argent. The introduction of white between the blue and red, adds also much to the brilliancy of the colors, and brings them out in strong relief.īlazon, saltire, azure, argent-heraldry relies on a vast, arcane vocabulary of largely French origin in a convoluted and rigid syntax meant to preserve the design of a given coat of arms with the permanence of a molecular formula. Hence the white, being metal argent, is put on the red, and the blue put on the white. This is an impossible case to make, and the KKK’s support of the flag is only confirmation. It would not do to put a blue cross, therefore, on a red field. Many have argued that the Confederate flag isn’t a symbol of racism so much as one of southern heritage. Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images Dixiecrats resurrected the. The 'white edge' (as I term it) to the blue is partly a necessity to prevent what is called 'false blazoning,' or a solecism in heraldry, viz., blazoning color on color, or metal on metal. The Confederate Battle flag known as the 'Southern Cross' has 13 stars to represent the defeated Confederate States of America. The flag of North Carolina is based on the states 1861 flag which. Blue stars on a white field would not be handsome or appropriate. The state flags of Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee are all based on Confederate flags. Stars, too, show better on an azure field than any other. 3×5, 4ft X 6ft and 5ft X 8ft Rebel Flags have 2 metal grommets for easy hanging, is printed on both sides and are great way to show your rebel heritage and. The stars ought always to be white, or argent, because they are then blazoned 'proper' (or natural color). īesides, in the form I proposed, the cross was more heraldic than ecclesiastical, it being the 'saltire' of heraldry, and significant of strength and progress (from the Latin salto, to leap). It avoided the religious objection about the cross (from the Jews and many Protestant sects), because it did not stand out so conspicuously as if the cross had been placed upright. The three colors of red, white, and blue were preserved in it.
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