| Show THE REBEL MAU I 1 I 1 trouble the ill Adopt lup 16 standard edve for the stars ana a I 1 athe deviers they used fir their ovin banner alanta prior to 5 1861 aliv se states bad no natio nal flog IL ine day president lincoln was in augu rated at the southern congram ad opted the stars and tars and on that day it was first flung to the breeza from I 1 the state Iroll st fit montgomery prior to this thu bato flags bad been used by tha I 1 ev pral sec tates the first flag is in the war D apar I 1 t at washington it is a pall i flig and it is said to have over charleston A ietto tree of eight bra Debes is sewed upon its center and it has eleven red stars surrounding it with a rising red moon at the top on february 4 1871 ilia cea sion convention af pf south carolina mississippi Ala balma louisiana georgia nod florida met in the old state alouse at ala and proceeded to organize tile southern confederacy jefferson davis va president and 1 U ex antler 1 vice t an the convention adopted a constitution ution and chose the confederate flag when making there tion they received designs and let from all parts of the these are now hidden away in an old scrap book among the confider con feder ate archive in the liar depart at it is a ragged volume eighteen inches wide and four inches thick its paper originally white is now a fade pink its covers are worn and its corners are I 1 11 it are pasted designs for a con federate flag 1 which were prevented preen ted to the Al by their sides or on the opposite pages are the rum erous letters which them some of these letters are addressed to jef ferson davis som ato alexander 11 some to robert tom ba and 9 great bumber to robert bailes who avas the chairman of the committee on flags the designs are of all and colors some of them espell ally those w ut by ladies are of silk the different colors neatly sewed some are of bunting rudely painted and a larie number are made up of pieces of different dolored pasteboard or paper to gether I 1 uto the design desired there is little originality shown it these devices of them are combinations of the colors and form of the elars null stripes while not a few are after the flags of other nations now in use in deign no 41 for to deft ergon davis from Colre eville ala the very colors abear ut each other the device is two feet by three in size with one half of the ground blue and the other half a airty yel low on this broad blue half which is nearest tile pole a big black eye I 1 I 1 painted bookil toward the y eli w d around in shape of a creasean t which faces the front of the flag are seven white stars from the eye bright stripes radiate run ning out of the blue and losing themselves in the yellow four designs directed to ilon robert toombs represent a nix as rising from the ashes painted upon a waite fiela avith borders of red and blue one of the largest designs has fifteen large stripes of altercate alter bate white and red it lifts a blue union from the upper corner of which almost resting the staff looks out a great eye below which is painted a red band grasp ing a wreath of green the most beautiful designs tire those sent by women ono device sent by the ladies of charleston was made of red white and 1 1 u a put together ditl made delica t e stitches itis eighteen inches longani lon gand consists of two series of three stripe i of red white and red above and below a broad stripe of blue upon are sewed seven white stars sir of the stars reprinted rep rented the states then in convention the seventy seven tb texas which was about to secede from the designs still the fetters it can be seen how general was the do ae throughout the south to re tain all that was possible of the old flag of the long report of the com mattec on flags alabell 5 1861 fully is given to ap ex plana tion why more 0 tal the stars and stripes could not be embodied inthe flieg presented the report then states that the humbly think the following design combines the above requisites ani they sub mit it as of the confederate states of ameriee Ame it shall con ofa red fieh white space extending boriin tally it I 1 rough the center and equal in to olle third the width of ill a flag the ral spaces above anti bel ov o v to be the same width as the white the union blue extending through the tig at the lower red space in the c epter of the union a circle of white stars corresponding in number with the states of the this befort was adopted and ilia above degian be came knowli as tile stars ana bars the stars and bart were however a failure a battle flag its similarity to ilia stars and made it useless and ill 1 1 pain oily apparent athe 13 a tite asif bull run where tile colora of the two armies could nut be from each after the bat tle writes general beauregard it was found that many in both armies believed that each side had used as a stratagem strat egem and gen eral joseph johnson and myself de aided to adopt a battle 1 flog I 1 for our I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 eull f I 1 aces D bigus aro ed for and on or presented by colon I 1 ja mee 13 of louisiana was I 1 chosen this oblong but gendral johnson mo T irked it by inong it tare and so modified it became tile battle flag of the confederacy it was in 7 september adopted by 1 I lie army of ilia potomac and shortly afterward with slight enod by ilia 0 t tier arcipa in its the of i national ensigns en signi this battle flag had a rel aleid with two wide batio bars douning comer tr the af pf tier forming the greek cross aa abeso bari white and gotal stirs equal tit number to ilia states of the confederacy tile design was substantially the same as tile one presented to tile montgomery iy ay william porche r miles aben it a stars nod bara were chosen it is known as tile ern cross atilt wa s tile oil ay in general bic by the southern troops during ilia war the cong in a adopting dop ting it as a nation al flag in alay 1803 added the white field that it amov be of us a bute quare as it was this design was such that it could not be revera cd as a bignal of dis the white let on trial was also found open to objections I 1 t made ilia flag liable to be mistaken for A flag of truce and at a dist slice it looked much like the english white ensi an to remedy these faults a broad red stripe was added to the end of the flag anethia and thia the last national flag of the confederacy was adopted by the senate at richmond in february 1865 swiss minister to dashington tas hington I 1 the republic of switzerland sent recently to the united stacee ta envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary a gentleman who figured as a gallant soldier in our civil war this fact gives an on common interest to the personality and career of emile frey the swiss minister wais bora at Ar lesheim switzerland oct 2 1838 ile was carefully instructed at home by teachers prepa to school and college 0 aab he was graduated at the uni shortly afterward be cane to the tates in 1861 frey enlisted in the union army us a private soldier he served throughout the war at tile bantli of lie was gettysburg t a k en r I 1 fe was confined b crisone y prison after the war frey returned to his native country chero he was elected to an imbor is nt local office ilis next step in 1 political oli promotion was member ph ip in and the presidency of the nd ministration in the canton of basel bix years after his first taint ta int part in tile government of the can ion he in the year 1872 a member national chuia cil ile was ten years a member of this body part of the time its president when I 1 t bad been determined by the swiss government to tend an envoy and plenipotentiary to the united states colonel frey was given that position is a colonel in the swiss army lie is a widower with chit dren ilbo are attending school in switzerland in his official cl i ty suli as a private gentleman co I 1 onel pre y ia much ailed by his alsoc assoc bates ilia personal per appear lince bles that of ilia title president garfield ila is tall big headed and blond bearded frey received gen grant aben he passed through switzerland on his tour around tile world |
