According to your most die-hard imaginary Confederate armies today, this third flag "is still the official flag of the Confederacy." Via Wikipedia On March 4, 1865, with the war nearly over, the Confederate Congress decided "whatever" and adopted a third and final flag: "the Blood Stained Banner." It was the same as the previous design except with a vertical red bar so that it would not be confused with the actual flags of surrender the Confederates would start flying one month later.
sorry, but your freedom-princess was in another castle. The loophole was that the proclamation only applied to states and territories "in rebellion against the United States." In short, if you were a slave in Delaware, Kentucky or even the recently-captured Confederate territories of New Orleans or Tennessee. Thanks to a loophole, about a million individuals were still legally slaves after the EP (there were about four million slaves in captivity at the time it declared three million of them free). "The right to vote? Don't push it, guys." Of course the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves. It's like calling something the "Patriot Act" and then not legislating that everyone wear American flags capes, festoon their cars with airbrushed bald eagles and sing that Lee Greenwood song at dinner every night. It only makes sense that we'd think of the Emancipation Proclamation as the law that freed the slaves "emancipation" is right there in the title.
6 The Emancipation Proclamation Ended Slavery in the United States