Mississipi Rebel Flag, 150 years later

Flag of Mississippi
Adopted 150 years ago today

January 26, 1861 was a vexillologically significant date for the South. Mississippi adopted a flag after leaving the Union and before the formation of the Confederacy.

Also on this date, in celebration of Louisiana's pull out - the famous Pelican flag was flown over the Louisiana State House.

Louisiana also left the Union 150 years ago, today. Louisiana was the 6th state to invoke secession with the US Constitution. Louisiana was the last of the original founding members of the Confederacy. Only six states participated in the first presidential election of the 'provisional' government - that elected Jefferson Davis. Nearly a month would pass before President Davis admitted the first new state into the recently established Confederacy - Texas. So in a weird way Texas is the Vermont of the Confederacy.

January 26, 1861 was also vexillologically significant date. Mississippi adopted a flag. The pre-Confederate 'free on my own' Mississippi State Flag incorporated the Bonnie Blue Flag in the canton on a white field. On the white field is a magnolia tree and finally along the fly is a red stripe.

Flag of Louisiana that flew over
Louisiana's Secession Congress 150 years ago

On celebration of Louisiana's pull out - the famous Pelican flag was flown over the Louisiana State House. 150 years later Louisiana still flies the Secession Pelican Flag but in a different form.

Rebel Red is often associated with Confederacy and the South, but the flags of Louisiana and South Carolina show us that there were also Rebel Blues.

The original Louisiana Rebel Flag did not have red blood drops nor yellow-brown.

US Civil War 150 Years Ago Today - part 4 (Inauguration Flag of President Davis)