1861 - 1865

The Seven-star Confederate Flag, 1861 –1865

“The seven-star Confederate flag (the seventh star for Texas) during 1861 symbolized a period of tortured chaos for Texans. Of all those considered Texas Trailblazers (Jane Long, Sam Houston, Mirabeau Lamar, the Austins . . . others), Jane arrived first and died last, living as a subject of the Spanish crown, a citizen of Mexico, a citizen of The Republic of Texas, briefly a part of the Confederacy, neither a Southerner nor a Southwesterner: a citizen of the United States of America. Jane Long lived under more flags as a Texian than any other.” – page 221, Texas Sinners and Revolutionaries, Jane Long and Her Fellow Conspirators by Jack C. Ramsay, Jr.


© - Copyright, Jack C. Ramsay, Jr. 2001

Late 1850s to 1880
The End of the Trail For Jane Long and Her Fellow Conspirators

Since most confederate armies fought under the flags of their state, this was probably the emblem and flag that led most Texas troops into battle. It was only in the final days of the confederacy that the red flag with a St. Andrew’s cross upon it was used to battle increasing numbers of northern troops.

Pictures of Fort Sumter taken April 1861 show a Confederate flag, the Seven-Star “Stars and Bars”, flying high in the breeze over the Charleston Harbor fort. Though credit for the photographs are seldom given, the photographer was probably George S. Cook, one of the famous Civil War photographers, (our book, Photographer ...Under Fire) who had a home over-looking the harbor and a collection of Fort Sumter pictures. In all probability, neither Mathew Brady nor his cadre of photographers ever came anywhere near Charleston Harbor.

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