
First Congress, Session III, Chapter 88.
CHAP. LXXXVIII.–An act to establish the Flag of the Confederate States.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the flag of the Confederate States shall be as follows: the field to be white, the length double the width of the flag, with the union, (now used as the battle flag,) to be a square of two thirds the width of the flag, having the ground red; thereon a broad saltier (sic) of blue, bordered with white, and emblazoned with white mullets or five pointed stars, corresponding in number to that of the Confederate States.
APPROVED May 1, 1863.