From the Richmond Times-Dispatch - the paper has been publishing from the same day 150 years ago - here's the link and a cut and paste.

http://www.richmond.com/news/special-report/the-civil-war/article_79a8e392-ad95-5cc0-9e04-68a07a955b81.html

Civil War 150th: On this date in 1865

Posted: Saturday, February 7, 2015 10:30 pm

The New Confederate Flag.

We give below an interesting letter from Major Rogers, the designer of the new Confederate flag, which has been floating over the capitol for a day or two past. We give it ... as a page in the history of our country’s struggle. The bill adopting the new design has passed the Senate unanimously and is now before the Committee on Flag and Seal of the House ...

“The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the flag of the Confederate States shall be as follows: The width two-thirds of its length with the union, (now used as the battle-flag,) to be in width three-fifths of the width of the flag, and so proportioned as to leave the length of the field on the side of the union twice the width below it; to have the ground red, and a broad blue saltier thereon, bordered with white and emblazoned with mullets or five-pointed stars, corresponding in number to that of the Confederate States; the field to be white, except the outer half from the union, which shall be a red bar extending the width of the flag.”

Before offering the bill, that gentleman addressed a letter to the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, requesting his views in regard to the proposed alteration. General Lee replied that he thought it “very pretty,” and that it certainly added distinctness to the flag: but ... said he mistrusted his own judgment in such matters, and that the “naval gentlemen” were the proper persons to be consulted. ...