It’s the battle flag of Robert E. Lee’s army unit While it wasn’t the Confederate states’ official flag, the battle flag was flown by several Confederate Army units.

As public backlash against the Confederate battle flag intensifies, several major U.S. companies, including Wal-Mart, Target, Sears and EBay, have decided to stop selling items bearing the flag's ...

The new flag was never adopted by the entire Confederate Army, but in November 1861, Robert E. Lee’s newly organized Army of Northern Virginia made the flag its own. Civil Rights-Era revival ...

The battle flag with a blue X and red background associated with the former Confederate States of America was a subject of controversy even before the final design was approved.

When Army Lieutenant General Simon Buckner Jr., himself the son of a Confederate general, saw a Marine unit flying the flag at the battle of Okinawa, he ordered it removed. “Americans from all ...

“The flag that is in the controversy right now is the Army of Northern Virginia battle flag,” Harriman said. ... after black students protested the use of the Confederate battle flag.

The U.S. military is rethinking its traditional connection to Confederate Army symbols, mindful of their divisiveness at a time the nation is wrestling with questions of race after the death of Geo… ...

At Army posts throughout the country, there are "thousands of battle pictorials of Grant and Lee going up against each other with their requisite flags," he added, noting Lee's Union counterpart ...

It’s the battle flag of Robert E. Lee’s army unit While it wasn’t the Confederate states’ official flag, the battle flag was flown by several Confederate Army units.

It’s the battle flag of Robert E. Lee’s army unit While it wasn’t the Confederate states’ official flag, the battle flag was flown by several Confederate Army units.