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Confederate Flag (1865)

On March 4, 1865 Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, approved an act revising the previous Confederate flag. A vertical red bar was added at the end of the white field opposite the union. Less than a month later, on April 9, 1865, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered. Five days after Lee's surrender, Lincoln was assassinated, the first U. S. President to be killed in office.

An actual Confederate Flag of 1865 is shown below.

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On March 4, 1865 Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, approved an act revising the previous Confederate flag.

It is telling that at a time when the victorious Union armies were liberating dozens of miles of southern territory per day from the forces of the rebellion, when the confederate armies had neither the food or the men to continue, and mere days before Davis was forced to flee the capitol, the southern leadership felt that they had nothing better to do than ponder what their flag would look like. No wonder you lost.