View Alabama State Flag History Pictures. This flag looked very different from the current. The 1861 state flag of alabama was designed in montgomery by a small group of women.
The bars forming the cross must not be less than six inches broad and must extend diagonally across the flag from side to side.
Another blue flag flew over the state capitol; Although alabama became a state in 1819, the history of its state flag did not begin until 1861 when the decision was made to secede from the union. Alabama's state flag was designed to evoke the battle flag of the alabama infantry in the civil war. click here to view the full washington post report, which also ties the flags of north carolina and tennessee to the states' confederate history. The state did not adopt an official flag until 1895.
