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NATIONAL TREASURES
Confederate States of America
1861 - 1865
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ZFC2486Â 13 Star Confederate States of America Provisional Flag - made while Confederate government still forming. While the recently seceded states met in Montgomery to form a new government and select a new national, patriots and entrepreneurs alike made provisional flags representing the seceded states. Read more
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ZFC0180Â 7 Star Confederate 1st National Camp Flag, March - April 1861, former Star Spangled Banner Flag House Collection. This flag bearing the first Confederate National pattern was authenticated by the Smithsonian Institution and examined by Howard Madaus who identified it, most likely, as a camp flag. Read more
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ZFC1084Â Confederate States of America 9 Star National Garrison Flag - New Orleans, 1862. Nine Star Confederate Flags are extremely rare, perhaps the rarest of all of the variants of the First National Confederate Flags since they were only official from May 18 to May 21, 1861, a mere three days. Captured by Col. Alexander Warner of the 13th CT. Vol. Read more
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ZFC0002Â Confederate States of America 11 Star Bible Flag, 1861-1863. Flags like this small 11 star Confederate Flag are often referred to as bible flags. They were common to both Union and Confederate sides during the American Civil War. Read more
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The Great Seal of the Confederate States of America was adopted to embody the Confederacy’s aspiration that the South had retained the original intents of the Founding Fathers while the North has not. Accordingly they chose, as the most prominent feature, the equestrian statue of General George Washington, from the Virginia Washington Memorial, that stands in from of the state capitol building Richmond, Virginia. To the Confederacy, Washington symbolized the American ideal. Washington is surrounded by a wreath of the bounty of the primarily agrarian South; cotton, tobacco, rice, corn, sugar cane and wheat. The date 22 February 1862 refers to the
date of inauguration of the only President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, coincidentally on Washington’s birthday.
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ZFC2591Â The jack of the CSS Patrick Henry, school ship of the Confederate States Navy, preserved by the Superintendant, Capt. William Harwar Parker. Read more
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ZFC2590Â Ensign of the famous commerce raider, CSS Alabama, presented to the officer's English host after the 17th of June 1864 Battle of Cherbourg when the Alabama sank after her poor gunpowder proved fatal. Read more
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ZFC2499Â 13 Star, Confederate States of America - Lt. Artillery - reverses traditional U.S red over white, with staff, 1863, extremely rare 1 of 2. Captured at Fort Hindman A very rare swallowtail Confederate guidon with its original blue lanyard. It was originally discovered furled around its staff with its red painted tin
“halberd head†finial. Read more
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ZFC0510 U.K. Confederate Blockade Runner, “ruse de guerre†ensign, 1861 - 1865. While the early history of this flag is unknown, it was acquired from the personal collection of noted collector William H. Guthman, who founded Guthman Americana in Westport, Connecticut where he was a prominent antique
dealer and a respected scholar and author. Read more
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