That's was not the Confederate flag, Anyone who actually knows their history, knows that's the Battle Flag of Northern Va. Virginia seceded from the north, not because of slavery, but because of the action of Abraham Lincoln. In all truth, the first vote to secede failed, it was after the battle of Fort Sumter, (where there were actually no casualties), When Lincoln called up troops from all states, and that's when Virginia seceded. The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the south ONLY, Slavery was alive and well in the north until the year after the civil war ended.