Showing posts with label 1894. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1894. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Flags of Somebody Else's Fathers

Mississippi took the step, long overdue, of removing the Confederate Battle Ensign from the field of its state flag yesterday.

This means Mississippi, which took the flags down yesterday, returns to its antebellum status of having no flag at all.  It didn't have one until the Civil War, when it adopted a rather odd looking one which apparently wasn't used much at the time.

Mississippi's first flag.

In 1894 it adopted the first version of the flag it just departed from, which has had three versions over the past 126 years.  The state will pick a new flag at the polls in November.