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When was the Mississippi State flag adopted? Why was it adopted? and who adopted it?

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February 7, 1894

When the State Convention at the Capitol in Jackson declared its secession from the United States ("Union") on January 9, 1861, near the start of the American Civil War, spectators in the balcony handed a Bonnie Blue flag down to the state convention delegates on the convention floor, and one was raised over the state

Edward N. Scudder

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