A Flag That Lost Its Purpose

Philliz Navidad
3 min readJul 11, 2020
Image made available by Daniel Hagerman

The Confederate flag took on many iterations, then much later after the Civil war it took on a new meaning.

Most of us know which side won the war in 1865. But few know the Confederate flag we see today is most representative of Robert General E. Lee’s Army of N. Virginia. His victories embedded pride into the flag and became adopted by the…

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Philliz Navidad

Multi-passionate Queer PoC from SF. Geek. Designer. Writing.