Flag Company Inc About Alabama

By Adam Sirvestry


Alabama, which joined the union as the 22nd state in 1819, is situated in the southern United States and nicknamed the "Heart of Dixie." Europeans came to this place in the sixteenth century. In the nineteenth century, cotton and slave work were vital to Alabama's economy.

The Alabama State Flag was approved by the Alabama Legislature on February 16, 1895. The state banner was to be a blood-red cross of St. Andrew on a field of white. The bars framing the cross were not to be under six inches wide and were toThroughout the years, there has been much theory over the state of the Alabama state banner. Dr. Thomas Owen, chief of the Alabama Department of Archives and History talked with people who had been around at the time that the bill was presented. He inferred that the banner ought to be square, taking into account the "rOn January 11, 1861, the Secession Convention passed a determination assigning a banner composed of Montgomery ladies as the official banner of the tradition.

Without a flag of their own, Alabamans rallied under the flags of the Confederate States of America. From March 4, 1861, until April 1865 one of two Confederate National Flags waved over Alabama soil.

All through the spring of 1863, the Confederate Congress wrangled about the outline for another national banner for the Confederacy. On May 1, both houses consented to a banner comprising of a white field, with a length twice the length of its width, and a square Confederate Battle Flag.

On the spring of 1863, the Confederate Congress disputed about for another national flag for the Confederacy. The Second National Flag was extensively known as the "Stainless Banner." Because the first issue of this flag hung the crate of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, it was then called the "Jackson Flag." Today's Alabama's state flag is only a red cross on a field of white. The Alabama flag is seen in both ways, in square or rectangular.

There is a barrage of cheap and inferior Alabama flags being imported and sold, that do not comply with the flag statute. This is bad for a number of reasons. Imported flags are cheaply made and more importantly, the designs, materials, colors, and methods of printing do not compare well with the better quality, longer-lasting, and correctly designed flags made by American manufacturers. The Flag Company Inc specialized in flag designs offered a special edition of decals and flags to memorize the history of Alabama flag for the future.




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