WYANDOTTE, Kansas, Saturday, May 11, 1861. This has been a glorious day ... one hundred and thirty feet high, the old flag of the Union. Although it was rainy and muddy, everybody seemed to ...
"May 20th, 1861" was the date that North Carolina decided to join the Confederacy and secede from the Union. The first NC state flag was used throughout the Civil War. When the Confederacy lost ...