Confederate Flag: Correct Description Of The Stars And Bars
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Confederate National Flag
The proposed flag resembled the United States flag, but replaced the "stripes" with 3 "bars". The flag had 7 stars, one for each state that was part of the confederacy at the time. This flag was dubbed the "Stars and Bars". The United States flag had been known as the "Stars and Stripes". This flag had replaced the stripes with bars, so it was logical to call it the "Stars and Bars". Note that today people often refer to the Confederate battle flag (pictured at the top of the page, on the left of the photograph) as the "Stars and Bars". Strictly speaking, this is not a correct description of the Confederate battle flag.
Those who preferred a very different flag from that of the United States proposed several different