Orren Randolph Smith designed "The Stars and Bars," the first official flag of the Confederacy, on February 12, 1861, and the Confederate States Congress adopted it in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 4, 1861. Born in Warren County, North Carolina, on December 18, 1827, he spent much of his life in Henderson, North Carolina, where his body is interred. He died in Henderson, North Carolina, on March 3, 1913. Smith is also associated with the words, "Peace to their ashes, Honor to their memory, Glory to their cause."