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Originally Posted by the_real_Barleycorn

This is the "Stainless Banner" or the second Confederate flag flown over the Confederates States of America. It was adopted in May of 1863. Is that what you're talking about? I don't think so. You're talking about, like most ignorant people, about the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia:
You mentioned the 1863 flag but what about the 1865 flag or the "Blood Stained Banner":
You know, it occurs to me that none of these flags look exactly like the so-called Confederate Flag. I guess the people flying it and the people protesting it are not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
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that's because it's not. this flag ..
is a modern day more rectangular version of both the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee or the last actual flag without the white border and red bar ..
this was the first flag of the Confederate states of America .. 7 stars
then nine stars
then eleven ..
and finally thirteen.
in 1863 it became a mix of the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee with a white border around it ..
then this with a different ratio .. also the Confederate Navy ensign ..
then finally this in 1865 ..
so ... this flag ...
was never the flag of either the Confederate States of America nor the Army of Northern Virginia's battle flag or the Army of Tennessee
what people fly today is a modern era more rectangular version of this .. without the white area and red bar.
my guess is that due to Lee's success .. the so-called "modern" version of the Confederate States of America's flag is simply a more rectangular version of the above without the rest.