The dark blue, close to an indigo, matched the uniform Moultrie's troops wore, and the moon shape matched an emblem on their caps. The palmetto tree was added in 1861 when South Carolina ceded ...

South Carolinians are fiercely proud of the state’s iconic indigo-blue flag, with its thin crescent and lush palmetto ... color, dyed with the indigo plant. The crescent – not a moon, but ...

It is not a moon, I was told in revolutionary tones. That arc over the breezy palmetto tree that makes our flag ... Colonel Moultrie chose a blue color which matched the color of their uniforms ...

The crescent and palm tree on a field of blue flies all over the Palmetto State. Thus, I wondered at the headline about a “new state flag” on the Dec. 29 Post and Courier front page.

Lambasted by residents of the state, South Carolina’s newly proposed state flag has been scrapped, the Post and Courier reported this week. The South Carolina State Flag Study Committee was ...

The background would remain indigo, the committee said, because Revolutionary soldiers wore uniforms of the same color, dyed with the indigo plant. The crescent — not a moon, but a badge worn by ...

Lambasted by residents of the state, South Carolina’s newly proposed state flag has been scrapped, the Post and Courier reported this week. The South Carolina State Flag Study Committee was ...

South Carolinians are fiercely proud of the state’s iconic indigo-blue flag, with its thin crescent and lush palmetto. So when a commission of historians was tasked with tweaking its design ...