Capturing the enemy's flag was long linked with morale, to the point that men would die to prevent the flag being even in danger of capture.
Military trainers simply used this idea and practised it as an exercise.
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The Fourth of July was traditionally celebrated as America's birthday, but the idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885. BJ Cigrand, a schoolteacher, arranged for the pupils in the Fredonia, Wisconsin Public School, District 6, to observe June 14 (the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes) as 'Flag Birthday'. In numerous magazines and newspaper articles and public addresses over the following years, Cigrand continued to enthusiastically advocate the observance of June 14 as 'Flag Birthday', or 'Flag Day'.
The rebel flag the flag of the south.
Such a flag is called a national flag.
What state flag.
Yes, it did have a flag.