I visited the website that was given in the Living History handout, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/index.html. I saw that they had a section for the Civil War so I clicked there. They had a lot of interesting objects but the one that caught my eye was this picture of a what seemed to be a flag. It stated that these kind of flags were carried by soliders during the Civil War. When I first saw the picture it looked like it was made out of a ripped page of a book and wrapped around a twig from a tree. After observing it for a while I read that they were called "Bible Flags". I'm assuming they were called "Bible Flags" because the page was ripped out of a Bible. What I thought seemed to be a stamp on the paper of the flag was actually hand painted by the soliders. It was the symbol of the Confederate States of America.
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