Re: What kind of person was Stonewall Jackson?

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Ulysses at Olympus Mons  <davidholiman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>There is a salute to the [Confederate] battle flag (Stars & Bars)

Flags of the World, a wonderful resources for flags, has
<http://flagspot.net/flags/us-csa.html>:

    The first National Confederate Flag was called the "Stars and
    Bars", said to resemble the Austrian flag, designed by a Austrian
    major. It was a horizonal tri-color red, white, red, with a blue
    canton containing a varying number of stars, ranging from 7 (the
    original members) to 15, ... Due to it's similarity to the Federal
    flag, it was one of the factors that led to the death of Thomas
    "Stonewall" Jackson by his own troops.

"Stars and Bars" links to <http://flagspot.net/flags/us-csa1.html>.
In heraldry, a "bar" is one of a number of horizontal stripes.
It was a national flag, not a battle flag per se (except insofar as a
national flag often appears on a battlefield).

If you mean a flag with a red field, a blue X (saltire) edged in
white, and some number of white stars on the saltire -- the one that's
most famous today -- then that was a battle flag used by the Army of
Northern Virginia, as well as the naval ensign.  But many other flags
were used in battle, including flags down to company flags, state
flags, older national flags, et cetera, as explained at
<http://flagspot.net/flags/us-csah.html>.

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Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]