“When the news came that the confederates had fired on Fort Sumter, we hoisted the Yankee Doodle flag at the head ... of his descendants. During the Civil War, John Adams Knight told an English ...

A flag can be seen flying from the top ... safe haven for African Americans” escaping slavery in North Carolina during the Civil War, the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum wrote on its website.

Flags flying above public places may be limited under a new North Carolina bill. State Rep. Brian Echevarria (R-Cabarrus) read the Depoliticize Government Property Act to the Judiciary 1 Committee ...