Tennessee, flag of

Tennessee, flag of

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      U.S. state flag consisting of a red field (background) with a central white-bordered blue disk bearing three white stars; at the fly end are unequal vertical stripes of white and blue.

      During the Civil War (1861–65) a motion was submitted to the legislature calling for use of the Stars and Bars as the state flag, with the substitution of the Tennessee seal for the circle of stars in the Confederate national flag, but the motion appears not to have been acted upon. The first confirmed official flag was adopted in 1897. It had diagonal stripes of red-blue-white with the yellow inscription “The Volunteer State” (the state nickname) and the number 16, indicating the order of admission of Tennessee to statehood.

      The current design, created by Captain LeRoy Reeves of the Tennessee Infantry and approved on April 17, 1905, features three stripes and three stars. These were said by Reeves to refer to “the three grand divisions of the State” (perhaps meaning the lowland regions in the west, the central plateaus, and the Appalachian areas), but they have also been said to represent either the three presidents who lived in Tennessee (Andrew Jackson, James Polk, and Andrew Johnson) or Tennessee's joining the Union as the third state after the original 13. The colours correspond to those in the Stars and Stripes (United States of America, flag of the) and the Stars and Bars. Tennessee and neighbouring Arkansas (Arkansas, flag of) are the only states to have red backgrounds for their flags.

Whitney Smith
 

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