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Red Cross Banner. The Confederate battle flag is the most familiar symbol of the American South but was not the official flag of the Confederacy, an honor that goes to the stars and bars. The familiar Red Cross Banner was designed by General P.G.T. Beauregard following the first battle of Bull Run, after Southern troops in the confusion of battle mistook the Stars and Bars for the Union flag, which it resembled. The flag that most southerners fly today is this Red Cross Banner or battle flag, not the Stars and Bars. |