"As a national emblem, it is significant of our higher cause, the cause of a superior race, and a higher civilization contending against ignorance, infidelity, and barbarism. Another merit in the new flag is, that it bears no resemblance to the now infamous banner of the Yankee vandals."
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Savannah Morning News (4 May 1863); As quoted in History of the Flag of the United States of America (1882), by George Henry Preble, p. 528
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William Tappan Thompson
William Tappan Thompson (31 August 1812 – 24 March 1882) was an Ohioan writer and newspaper editor during the 19th century. During the American Civil War, he worked in Georgia as a newspaper editor and supported the Confederacy. After the war ended, he supported the Democratic Party and opposed the Republican Party's civil rights efforts. He died in Georgia in March 1882.
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