{"id":2892,"date":"2023-05-28T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/archives\/2892"},"modified":"2020-01-26T11:55:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T16:55:37","slug":"the-flag-and-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-flag-and-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">May 28, 1863, <em>Tri-Weekly Telegraph <\/em>(<st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:city w:st=\"on\">Houston<\/st1:city>, <st1:state w:st=\"on\">Texas<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>)<em><o:p><\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><span>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  <\/span><\/em>Col. Wilcox while here gave us a correct drawing of the new Confederate flag, and a description of the seal.&nbsp;  The flag is white, with a red union, having a St. Andrew&#8217;s cross of blue, on each bar of which are three white stars, with a large one at the crossing.&nbsp;  To make a flag, say a yard and a quarter by three yards; take the usual size of the Beauregard battle flag, seven eights by one and one quarter of red.&nbsp;  On each side of this place a strip of blue, say 4 inches wide, running from each corner, diagonally across.&nbsp;  This makes the cross, and on this put the stars.&nbsp;  Now make a white flag, three yards by one and one quarter leaving space to put in the <st1:place w:st=\"on\">Union<\/st1:place>, and you have it.<em><o:p><\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><span>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  <\/span><\/em>The seal is an equestrian figure of Washington enclosed in a wreath of cotton, corn, tobacco, rice and wheat, with the motto <em>Deo Vindice<\/em>, (God the vindicator.) the idea of the Cavalier and the Puritan are both discarded; the Puritan whose idea of liberty was the privilege of persecuting others, and the Cavalier whose violence and licentiousness were equally disgusting with the cant of the Puritan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 28, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Col. Wilcox while here gave us a correct drawing of the new Confederate flag, and a description of the seal.&nbsp; The flag is white, with a red union, having a St. Andrew&#8217;s cross of blue, on each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":70117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/houston-triweekly-telegraph.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}