Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Alabama Flag History And Flag Company Inc

By Adam Brooks


Home to five Native American tribes (Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole), this area of fertile soils was the heart of the "cotton kingdom" before the Civil War. Alabama, which joined the union as the 22nd state in 1819, is arranged in the southern United States and nicknamed the "Heart of Dixie." In the language of the Creek Indians, "Alabama" in fact means "tribal town." The state enjoys a long and distinguished history.

The Alabama State Flag was authorized by the Alabama Legislature on February 16, 1895, by Act number 383. According to the Acts of Alabama, 1895, the state flag was to be a crimson cross of St. Andrew on a field of white. The bars forming the cross were not to be less than six inches broad and were to extend diagonally across the flag from side to side. The act did not designate a square or a rectangular flag.

Throughout the years, there has been much theory over the state of the Alabama state banner. Dr. Thomas Owen, chief of the Alabama Department of Archives and History talked with people who had been around at the time that the bill was presented. He inferred that the banner ought to be square, taking into account the "regulations administering the Confederate fight banner."

On January 11, 1861, the Secession Convention passed a determination assigning a banner composed by Montgomery ladies as the official banner of the tradition. This banner has regularly been alluded to as the Republic of Alabama Flag. One side of the banner showed the Goddess of Liberty holding in her right hand an unsheathed sword; in the left a little banner with one star.

The Second National Flag was widely known as the "Stainless Banner." Because the first issue of this flag draped the coffin of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, it was also known as the "Jackson Flag." The Flag Company Inc specialised in flag designs offered a special edition of decals and flags to memorise the future of the Alabama University.

Today's Alabama's state flag is only a red cross on a field of white. The Alabama flag is seen on both ways, in square or rectangular. When Alabama became a state on Dec. 14, 1819.




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