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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), History of the Confederate flag. (search)
History of the Confederate flag. [The following has been kindly furnished by the widow of Major Rogers, through the Rev. Arthur B. Kinsolving, D. D., of Brooklyn, N. Y. The gallant designer of the final Confederate flag was a son of General Asa Rogers, a graduate of the University of Virginia, and a lawyer in lucrative practice. He died soon after the conclusion of the war at Middleburg, Va., in the 38th year of his age.—Ed.] The lowered banner of the Stars and Bars is furled forever. No longer the symbol of a struggling people, nor as one day we hoped to look upon as the flag of a nation, The Confederate States of America! free and independent. But our flag has a history, and the time has come when, to preserve that history from oblivion, some record should be made of it. The author of the new design adopted by the Confederate Congress was Major Arthur Lee Rogers. Confederate States Artillery, who, while disabled from active service in the field, devoted some of his l