Legislation Creating
Mississippi Flag
The state flag was designed by a legislative committee appointed
in February, 1894. The flag features "the union square, in width
two-thirds of the width of the flag; the ground of the union to be
red and a broad blue saltier theron, bordered with white and emblazoned
with thirteen mullets or five-pointed stars, corresponding with the
number of the original States of the Union; the field to be divided
into three bars of equal width, the upper one blue, the center one
white, and the lower one extended the whole length of the flag, red -
the national colors; the staff surmounted with a spear-head and a
battle-axe below; the flag to be fringed with gold, and the staff
gilded with gold."
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Thursday, January 22, 2015
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