Here are a couple of articles from the Richmond Daily Dispatch including a suggested Flag of the Southern Confederacy, an Eight Star Virginia First National variant, and the suggestion that the Bonnie Blue Flag may have been the generally recognized flag of the Confederacy.

George Martin

Saturday Morning...Nov. 10, 1860.

The Charleston Mercury publishes the following suggestion for the flag of the "Southern Confederacy :"

The ground entirely blue, with a golden Palmetto in the centre; a golden rattlesnake twining round the stem of the Palmetto, with its rattle sprung, head erect, and tongue protruded. In the background, to the rear of the tree and snake, a golden spread eagle, and a single golden star in the upper right corner, with the words "Room for More" on the opposite.

Thursday morning...April 18, 1861.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
Secession flag raised in the District of Columbia.
Columbian College,
Washington, April 16.
The flag of the Southern Confederacy has at last reached Washington, and the first one that has been raised in the District of Columbia was given to the breeze yesterday evening, from the top of our College; and the Illi-nois-y Ape will understand that the rebels have not "dispersed," but that some of the audacious rascals have even dared to show their traitorous countenances almost under his nose. Our College is situated on a hill about two miles North of the White House, and commands a view of the whole city. Nearly all of the students — a good many of whom from the extreme South left when their respective States seceded — are Virginians, and nearly all are opposed to any further submission to Abolitionists. We are all locking anxiously for our good old State to make a move in the right direction. Yesterday evening, hearing that a dispatch had been received stating that Virginia had seceded — which, by the way, is contradicted this morning — some of our Virginians, in their enthusiasm, ascended to the roof of the College and raised the Confederate flag, with seven stars in a circle, and one in the centre for Virginia. It is, however, a mere temporary affair, and we hope soon to raise a larger and finer one.

The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1863.
Out Post, near Port Royal, Va.,
April 12th, 1863.
This is a memorable day in the annals of the Southern Confederacy--the second anniversary of the fall of Fort Sumter--a propitious harbinger of the many brilliant triumphs of our arms subsequently.

While we are still in the midst of a struggle that has shaken the American Continent from centre to circumference, and excited the admiration of the whole of Europe for unprecedented prowess, we have reasons for feeling sanguine that, in the sequel, the Bonnie Blue Flag will float proudly over the land that has been drenched with the blood of her chivalrous sons. While we sorrow over the dead that are scattered profusely over countless battle fields, and feel the weight of the great sacrifices we have made, we are unwilling to sheathe the trenchant blade until we shall have avenged their lives and achieved a glorious independence.