Confederate National Flags

[Wagonrider]

Were the Confederate national flags treated (ie. folded, raised and lowered,flown at half mast,etc.) the same as the U.S. flag? With the understanding that some flags were carried in the field while others flew over buildings and encampments, how were they handled? I did a search to no avail. - K. Hanson

[sigsaye]

Were the Confederate national flags treated (ie. folded, raised and lowered,flown at half mast,etc.) the same as the U.S. flag? With the understanding that some flags were carried in the field while others flew over buildings and encampments, how were they handled? I did a search to no avail. - K. Hanson

There were no standardized regulations governing the handeling of any flag in the US until 1932 with the adoption of the "US Flag Code". Prior to that, things were simply passed down as custom. The folding of the flag into a triangle was no commonly done until the adoption of the code.

Steve Hesson

[Lee Ragan]

Steve,
I had read somewhere ( I think on one of these reenactor forums), that the U.S. flag began to be folded in a triangle in about 1923 or 1924. Can anyone confirm this?

[sigsaye]

Steve,
I had read somewhere ( I think on one of these reenactor forums), that the U.S. flag began to be folded in a triangle in about 1923 or 1924. Can anyone confirm this?I wouldn't doubt that the triangle folding started about the early 1920s. What I was saying was that it was not standardized until the code was published. Generally, the code took the most comonly done things and standardized them and put them out so everyone would be reading off the same page so to speak.

In looking at pictures of the flags in EOG, I see straight lines indicating that they were basicaly folded like sheets, nothing special.

Steve Hesson