Transcripts For CSPAN3 American Artifacts 20151018

His mansion in Richmond Virginia , now referred to as the white house of the confederacy. The residence was saved from demolition, and since 1988 has been retorts since death to its wartime appearance. These two flags are replicas of the first and Second National flags of the confederacy. Flag,s the First National called the stars and bars, march 18 61 adopted as the National Flag of the confederacy. That is before the war started. When the war did start, they use this on the battlefield, but that proved to be ready confusing on a battlefield with smoke, fire, and other confusion. It looked like the United States flag. After the first big battle of the war, they stop using this on the battlefield. However, they kept it as the National Flag for almost two ofe years, and in the wake the failure of this one on the battlefield, they came up with other designs for battlefield use. May 1863, they completely did away with this one, and they came up with this one to replace it. This is the Second National flag of the confederacy, created by taking one of the battle flags. This square by itself was the battle flag of the army of northern virginia. They put this on a field of white and it became the new National Flag of the confederacy, sometimes called the stainless banner. Battlefield,for a too much white on it. It could look like a truce like, so they kept it off the battlefield, but kept it as the National Flag in till march 1865 , very late in the war, when they created a third National Flag by essentially taking this flag and then putting a red bar down one side of that flag to take away a lot of that white, so that flag was the third National Flag of the confederacy. This is the Second National. This is the First National. How is it that the flag that everyone thinks of that has more to do with what happened since the war. And really more often today we see it in a rectangular design, it just caught on as the emblem of the confederacy. We can get into speculation as , but one of them is that leess robert ely e army flag. The statedy seems goal of being different from this like and also from the United States flag now i mention that we usually today see a rectangular design. That actually is big battle flag of the army of tennessee or the confederate naval jack. During the war, the square after an was the battle flag of the army of northern virginia. Aboutr thing to comment that is that sometimes that is called the stars and bars. That is not correct, at least in terms of the terminology the confederates used. The confederates called this the stars and bars. Next, the school for conflict, analysis, and resolution posted a discussion about slavery and the Confederate Flag. George Mason University professor addresses both sides of the question, should the Confederate Flag fly above government grounds. This program is about an hour and 15 minutes. Good afternoon. Im dean of the school for conflict analysis and resolution at george Mason University. Our school is the first preeminent, Largest School of its kind,