Large rectangular Confederate battle flag featuring a red field with a blue St. Andrew’s cross outlined in white and bearing thirteen white stars. The design derives from the Confederate battle flag developed during the American Civil War after the First Battle of Manassas, when Confederate commanders sought a battlefield flag more easily distinguished from the United States flag.

The familiar rectangular form is associated historically with variations used by the Army of Tennessee and later became the most commonly reproduced form of the Confederate battle flag.

This example appears to be a later commercially manufactured flag rather than a Civil War-period textile. Exact manufacturer and date have not been identified.

Dimensions: approximately 35 x 59 in.

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