What Is The Confederate Flag?

A video published just yesterday on YouTube tries to explain what is and what is not the Confederate flag.  Since one flag associated with the Confederacy is facing renewed controversy, it might be useful to know precisely what that flag is.  As it turns out, the real Confederate flag may have been partly inspired by the flag of the empire from which my own ancestors fled.

Wiki has more about the short-lived republic which created the "Bonnie Blue Flag".