The flag is the only known privately-owned Confederate battle flag captured during Pickett’s Charge from Pickett’s Division ...

That the cause of the war, once the damned Union army actually invaded the South ... Thurmond's States' Rights Party adopted the Battle Flag of Northern Virginia as a symbol of defiance against ...

As the Civil War began, the Army of Northern Virginia, led by eventual Democratic activist Robert E. Lee, adopted the battle flag that is under contention today. It became the secessionists ...

The Army of Northern Virginia, commonly referred to as "Lee's Army," was the Confederacy's main fighting force in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War. Strategically, the Eastern Theater was ...

Figures for the strength of the Army of Northern Virginia range from a low of about 65,000 men of ... In the Union service these may be summarized as: Normally, accounts of Civil War battles rely for ...