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History of the flag of the United States of America, and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern
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and the permanent Confederate constitution "had deviated in the most emphatic manner from the spirit that presided over the construction of the
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The Statutes at Large of the Confederate States of America, Passed at the Third Session of the First Congress; 1863
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Sigillologia. Being Some Account of the Great or Broad Seal of the Confederate States of America. A Monograph
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The final design was approved on April 30, 1863, and a set of embossing dies ordered from London engraver
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The Confederacy: A Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America
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is surrounded with a wreath made of some of the main agricultural products of the Confederacy:
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Documentary History of the Flag and Seal of the Confederate States of America, 1861-'65
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to arrange for its manufacture in London. The seal was first used publicly in 1864.
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was used to authenticate certain documents issued by the federal government of the
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The Bermuda National Trust Museum at the Globe Hotel: Teacher Resource Guide
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represented in the foreground a Confederate soldier, in position to
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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The Seal of the Confederate States prominently features the
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1863 establishments in the Confederate States of America
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National symbols of the Confederate States of America
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Equestrian portrait of Washington (after the statue which surmounts his monument in the capitol square, at Richmond,) surrounded with a wreath composed of the principal agricultural products of the Confederacy, (cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, corn, wheat and rice,) and having around its margin the words: "The Confederate States of America, twenty-second February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," with the following motto: "Deo vindice"
Armiger
Confederate States of America
Motto
Latin
Deo vindice
national currency
Confederate States of America
seal
Confederate Secretary of State
Judah P. Benjamin
James Mason

Statue of Washington
Richmond
Statue of Washington
Richmond
George Washington
wheat
corn
tobacco
cotton
rice
sugar cane
Confederate Constitution
Jefferson Davis
president of the Confederate States
Washington's birthday
Deo vindice
God

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