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On March 4, 1865, the third official flag of the C.S.A. was adopted.<ref name="usflag.org"/> It had the same design as the second flag except for a red stripe running down the fly end of the flag.<ref name="usflag.org"/> It remained the official flag until the end of the Confederacy later that year.<ref name="usflag.org"/>
On March 4, 1865, the third official flag of the C.S.A. was adopted.<ref name="usflag.org"/> It had the same design as the second flag except for a red stripe running down the fly end of the flag.<ref name="usflag.org"/> It remained the official flag until the end of the Confederacy later that year.<ref name="usflag.org"/>
In 1861, Confederate General [[P.G.T. Beauregard]] proposed changing the first official Confederate flag due to its similarity with the Union flag.<ref name="sonofthesouth.net"/> After the Confederate government rejected his idea, he then proposed instituting two official flags: the national flag that was already in use, and a battle flag.<ref name="sonofthesouth.net"/> This idea was accepted, and a battle flag was chosen.<ref name="sonofthesouth.net"/> This flag was known as the '''Southern Cross''' and resembled a previous contestant for the first official Confederate flag.<ref name="sonofthesouth.net"/> The flag became popular among the Confederate Army and the general population.<ref name="sonofthesouth.net"/> The Southern Cross is also known as the battle flag of the [[Army of Northern Virginia]], commanded by [[Robert E. Lee]].<ref name="sonofthesouth.net"/> Unlike the Confederate flag most used today, the Battle Flag was square-shaped rather than rectangular.<ref name="usflag.org"/><ref name="sonofthesouth.net"/>
In 1861, Confederate General [[P.G.T. Beauregard]] proposed changing the first official Confederate flag due to its similarity with the Union flag.<ref name="sonofthesouth.net"/> After the Confederate government rejected his idea, he then proposed instituting two official flags: the national flag that was already in use, and a battle flag.<ref name="sonofthesouth.net"/> This idea was accepted, and a battle flag was chosen.<ref name="sonofthesouth.net"/> This flag was known as the '''Southern Cross''' and closely resembled a previous contestant for the first official Confederate flag<ref name="sonofthesouth.net"/> designed by [[William Porcher Miles]].<ref name="PBSNewsHour"/> The flag became popular among the Confederate Army and the general population.<ref name="sonofthesouth.net"/> The Southern Cross is also known as the battle flag of the [[Army of Northern Virginia]], commanded by [[Robert E. Lee]].<ref name="sonofthesouth.net"/> Unlike the Confederate flag most used today, the Battle Flag was square-shaped rather than rectangular.<ref name="usflag.org"/><ref name="sonofthesouth.net"/>
In addition, numerous other flags used by the C.S.A. and by different regiments of the army.<ref name="sonofthesouth.net"/>
In addition, numerous other flags used by the C.S.A. and by different regiments of the army.<ref name="sonofthesouth.net"/>
===Reconstruction and early 20th Century===
===Reconstruction and early 20th Century===
Immediately after the end of the Civil War, the Confederate flag was mainly used as a symbol of remembrance for Confederate soldiers who had fallen in battle.<ref name="historynet.com"/><ref name="PBSNewsHour">Costa-Roberts, Daniel (June 21, 2015). [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/8-things-didnt-know-confederate-flag/ 8 things you didn’t know about the Confederate flag]. ''PBS NewsHour''. Retrieved December 30, 2016.</ref>
While some people, particularly leftists, believe the Confederate flag displays racism, the opposite is true.<ref name="usflag.org"/> In fact, the [[Ku Klux Klan]] rarely, if ever, used the flag in its first and second incarnations, in the 1860s-70s and 1915-20s, respectively.<ref name="historynet.com"/> The flag only started to be used extensively in the late 1930s and 1940s at the third incarnation of the racist Democrat group.<ref name="historynet.com"/> As mentioned above, the flag's true purpose was and still is states rights and Southern pride and honor, and hate groups had no legitimate connection to the flag other than shared geographic location.<ref name="usflag.org"/>
===Rise in popularity===
===Rise in popularity===
Around 1900, the Confederate flags, particularly the Battle Flag, became common and mainstream throughout the South.<ref name="historynet.com"/> This resurgence was related to the "[[Lost Cause of the Confederacy]]" movement, which saw the Civil War to be over states rights and the South's military defeat not to mean any defeat of Southern values.<ref name="ALencyc">Cox, Karen L. (August 16, 2008; originally). [http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1643 Lost Cause Ideology]. ''Encyclopedia of Alabama''. Retrieved December 30, 2016.</ref> The movement had little, if anything, to do with racism, regardless with the unbiblical realities of segregation in the South at the time.<ref name="ALencyc"/> Despite efforts by the [[The United Confederate Veterans]] and the [[United Daughters of the Confederacy]] to promote the square-shaped flag used by the Army of Northern Virginia, the rectangular version used by the [[Army of Tennessee]] and the Confederate Navy became the most popular version due to its having the same shape as the Stars and Stripes and thus being the Southern equivalent.<ref name="historynet.com"/>
The Confederate flag continued to be used in honor of the Confederacy and its fallen soldiers during this time.<ref name="historynet.com"/>
===Civil Right Era===
===Civil Right Era===