Reply To: Fly the flag of the Confederate States of America?

“There are confederate cemeteries all through the South.

Not to put too fine a point on it but there are no Confederate cemeteries.

The Confederacy never existed at all from a legal standpoint. No foreign government ever recognized the Confederacy. The southern states were in rebellion to defend slavery. That’s all.

There are American cemeteries with the graves of those who fought for the Confederacy.

The controversial flag is actually the battle flag of the Army of Virginia.

That’s worth noting, but the point is that it’s a Confederate flag. One legislator had proposed the “solution” of swapping one type of Confederate flag for another, which misses the point.

The appropriate flag for a confederate cemetery is the stars and bars CSA flag that belongs to that year (it changed three times).”

The owners of a cemetery on private land may fly a Confederate flag if they want. A failed nation and war, both started for the defense of white supremacy and slavery, is no “heritage” I’d want to preserve, let alone be proud of. I’m gratified to see that some legislatures are realizing what is appropriate for a cemetery on public land.