Let's get something straight.  You may deplore the display of the various flags of the Confederate States of America.  You may accept the images as a part of our heritage.  You may not give a flip one way or the other.  But, whatever your view, at least get the names of the flags correct.

This flag is NOT the "Stars and Bars".  It is the battle flag of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and is more correctly referred to as the "Southern Cross".  

This flag is correctly called the "Stars and Bars".  It is the first national flag of the confederacy.  The number of stars represents the number of states in the confederacy at the time of its making.

This is the second national flag.  It was created because the "Stars and Bars", shown above, was confused on the field of battle with the Union's federal flag, the "Stars and Stripes" we are familiar with as the national flag of the United States of America.   As you can see, the "Stainless Banner" displayed below was too easily confused with a white flag of truce when there was insufficient wind to extend the flag so its use was discontinued.

This is the final national flag of the Confederacy.  Sometimes referred to as

"The Blood Stained Banner."

The flag shown below is often misused as a battle flag in movies and other forms of entertainment.  It was more commonly used as a Naval Jack flown by ships of the Confederate navy.   The Army of Tennessee used a similar battle flag but by far the most representative battle flag for land units is the square banner using the "Southern Cross" shown at the beginning of this page.