English: Title: The battle flag of the secessionist Confederate States of America during the U.S. Civil War, flying near cabins in the unincorporated town of Gap Mills in southeastern West Virginia

Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.

Notes: Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).; Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; The state was part of rebellious Virginia until its counties broke away to remain with the Union in that war. But alliances of the heart with the breakaway southern states did not diminish everywhere. Nor have defiant displays of the Confederate flag to this day (in 2015, 150 years after the final surrender of Confederate forces), despite opponents' association of the flag with past slavery and modern-day racism.; Forms part of: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.