The "Stars and Bars" is the common name for the first national flag of the Confederate States of America (CSA) dating from March 1861. The seven (7) stars in a circle represented the seven (7) states...
An Alabama gentleman by the name of Nicola Marshall who lived in Tuscaloosa, Ala was origanaly from the country we know as Austria. The flag of Austria then and today is three horizontal bars of red...
When the Confederate States was formed, a committee was formed and a design was chosen which featured seven stars in a blue union with three bars--two of red between a white one. This was known as...