|Different Confederate flags being held by Civil War re-enactment actors taken on Georgia Capitol grounds in 2003|
The first "Stars and Bars" designed by a German-born artist, Nicola Marschall, was "three horizontal stripes of equal height, alternating red and white, with a blue quadrilateral in the canton, inside the canton are white five-pointed stars of equal size, arranged in a circle and pointing outward." Marschall is said to have sympathized with the "confederate cause." He also painted portraits and designed the Confederate uniform.
Thompson described his flag as "The White Man's Flag" and made these comments in his newspaper, the Daily Morning News, in 1863:
"As a people we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; a white flag would thus be emblematical of our cause. ... As a national emblem, it is significant of our higher cause, the cause of a superior race, and a higher civilization contending against ignorance, infidelity, and barbarism."
"We fly the American flag. Thats the original flag of the Klan."
---Association of Georgia Klans who claim that Presidents Truman, Coolidge, and Harding as well as Supreme Court Justices White and Black were members of the Klan.