Here's a fun quote from the article about the design of the second flag >On April 23, 1863, the Savannah Morning News editor William Tappan Thompson, with assi

Here's a fun quote from the article about the design of the second flag >On April 23, 1863, the Savannah Morning News editor William Tappan Thompson, with assistance from William Ross Postell, a Confederate blockade runner, published an editorial championing a design featuring the battle flag on a white background he referred to later as "The White Man's Flag."[6] In explaining the white background, Thompson wrote, "As a people we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; a white flag would thus be emblematical of our cause."