Charleston Secession Flag Stickers/Magnets

Charleston Eagle Fire Company Secession Flag 

Design based on a period description of a Charleston Secession flag flown by the Charleston Eagle Fire Company. ""Tung to the breeze" a flag, displaying three large stars, and bearing the motto Semper Parati."

Charleston Mercury Secession Flag 

"Yesterday worning a new one was raised by the MERCURY. It consists of a blue ground, with the motto, "South-ern Confederacy," in large letters, and one star for each of the Southern States. It has attracted universal attention, and is emblamatical for that for which every true Southern patriot must earuestly strive.

November 16, 1860 - The Charleston Mercury"

"Palmetto Defender" Secession Flag 

"Recently hoisted by vessels in the harbor, and in the streets of Charleston, during the secession excitement a red palmetto flag that showed a rather spindly but natural looking palmetto tree with a snake coiled around its trunk in the center and a star in the upper flag-staff corner. Made by the secessionist Ladies of Charleston."

-Harper's Weekly & Charleston Mercury November 1860.

Animis Opibusque Parati Secession Flag 

On the 13th of November, 1860, just a week after the election of Lincoln, a torchlight procession paraded the streets of Columbia, South Carolina, and the Stars and Stripes was ; lowered from the State House, and the Palmetto flag raised in its place.

Three days afterward a pine liberty-pole 90 feet in hight was erected in Charleston, and a palmetto flag unfurled from its top. The flag had a white field bearing a green palmetto tree in the centre, and underneath it the motto of South Carolina: Animis Opibusque Parati: meaning, "Prepared in mind and resources, ready to give life and property."