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The Third National Flag was adopted March 4, 1865, before the fall of the Confederacy. The red vertical stripe was proposed by Major Arthur L. Rogers, who argued that the pure white field of the Second National Flag could be mistaken as a flag of truce. Rogers lobbied successfully to have his design introduced in the Confederate Senate. He defended his design as symbolizing the origins of the people of the South, with the cross of Britain and the red bar from the flag of France. |
American Flags
