Class Year
2019
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
3-7-2018
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
In the years immediately following the Civil War, the Confederate battle flag mostly disappeared from public view. In their diaries, Southerners wrote about hiding flags and other Confederate symbols for fear of Union retaliation. In most cases, Southerners intuitively understood that these symbols were now taboo, but occasionally, they stated that Union troops explicitly forbade displays of the battle flag. Some Southerners did still flaunt the flag as a means of defiance against Union troops, as mentioned in my last post, but most people quietly tucked it away. A mere five years after the war ended, though, the flag began to reappear. [excerpt]
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This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Ortman, Olivia, "Reviving the Past: The Battle Flag in the Confederate Memorial Period" (2018). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 257.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/257
Comments
This blog post originally appeared in The Gettysburg Compiler and was created by students at Gettysburg College.