The public mind of old Virginia is to-day boiling like one ... Not satisfied with this, a passion seized them to exalt the secession flag over the State House, and a band instantly proceeded ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WDBJ) - US and Virginia flags, lowered in Virginia Monday for Memorial Day, will again be flown at half-staff ...

Nevertheless the very atmosphere was laden with secession, and no one failed ... unfolding and holding up to view a flag of the Commonwealth of Virginia; and hundreds were rushing to the adjoining ...

or we must secede from the Union…” The northern Virginia battle flag stood for the same thing. Virginia’s secession statement was brief, but also clear: “…having declared that the powers granted them ...

On May 23, 1861, voters in a Virginia convention ratify an ordinance for the state's secession from the Union as a divided nation lurched toward all-out war. South Carolina had been the first ...

whose secession prompted the Civil War. It was actually a battle flag first used in 1861 by the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Gen. Robert E. Lee. Other military units followed suit ...