Chapter XIII: How to Behave Toward the Flag

Except the cross there is nothing that the American should hold more sacred than the flag of the United States, because of its record in peace and in war, and because it stands for the rights and the freedom of one hundred million citizens.

"Sign of a nation great and strong,
To ward her people from foreign wrong."

There are definite rules in regard to the use of the flag. The following are the most necessary to know:--

The flag should be raised at sunrise and lowered at sunset. It should not be left out at night unless under fire. It should not be allowed to touch the ground. If possible, a pole rather than a staff should be used.

In raising a flag to half-mast or half-staff, it should be run to the top of the pole, and then lowered the width of the flag. Before being retired, it should be run to the top again. On Memorial Day the flag should be at half-mast until noon, and at the peak from noon until sunset.

When the flag goes by, rise if you are sitting; halt if you are walking, and take off your hat.

In decorating, never drape the flag; always hang it flat. The Union should be at the observer's left, whether the stripes are perpendicular or horizontal. If our flag is crossed with the flags of other countries, or carried in a parade beside them, it should always be at the right.

In unveiling a monument, the flag should never be allowed to drop to the ground, but so arranged that it can be drawn up and will then float over the monument.

If draped over a casket, the blue field should be at the head. If used as the covering of an altar, nothing except the Bible should be placed upon it, and the union should be at the right.

Distress at sea is indicated by hanging the flag union down.

Always stand when "The Star-Spangled Banner" is played.

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For those people who, whether maliciously or ignorantly, show any disrespect to the flag, strenuous laws have been passed in most of the States. In Massachusetts, a post of the Grand Army or a camp of Spanish War veterans may put the name of the organization upon the flag, but no other lettering is permitted. Any one who mutilates the flag or in any way treats it with contempt is likely to fare worse than did John Endicott in colonial days. The same respect is required to be shown to the flags of all countries with which the United States is at peace.

The representation of the flag must not be used to advertise merchandise, but it may be used on any publication designed to give information about the flag, or to promote patriotism, or to encourage the study of American history.

June 14, the anniversary of the day in 1777 on which the flag was adopted, has been chosen as "Flag Day."

The length of a flag should be very nearly twice its height, or, to be exact, in the proportion of 1.9 to 1. The length of the union should be three fourths the height of the whole flag; the height of the union should be that of seven stripes.

Perhaps a little fancifully, a star has been assigned to each State in the order of its ratification of the Constitution and admission to the Union. Beginning at the left upper corner and reading each row from left to right, the stars of the separate States are as follows:--

_First row_

Delaware December 7, 1787
Pennsylvania December 12, 1787
New Jersey December 18, 1787
Georgia January 2, 1788
Connecticut January 9, 1788
Massachusetts February 6, 1788
Maryland April 28, 1788
South Carolina May 23, 1788

_Second row_

New Hampshire June 21, 1788
Virginia June 25, 1788
New York July 26, 1788
North Carolina November 21, 1789
Rhode Island May 29, 1790
Vermont March 4, 1791
Kentucky June 1, 1792
Tennessee June 1, 1796

_Third row_

Ohio February 19, 1803
Louisiana April 30, 1812
Indiana December 11, 1816
Mississippi December 10, 1817
Illinois December 3, 1818
Alabama December 14, 1819
Maine March 15, 1820
Missouri August 10, 1821

_Fourth row_

Arkansas June 15, 1836
Michigan January 26, 1837
Florida March 3, 1845
Texas December 29, 1845
Iowa December 28, 1846
Wisconsin May 29, 1848
California September 9, 1850
Minnesota May 11, 1858

_Fifth row_

Oregon February 14, 1859
Kansas January 29, 1861
West Virginia June 19, 1863
Nevada October 31, 1864
Nebraska March 1, 1867
Colorado August 1, 1876
North Dakota November 2, 1889
South Dakota November 2, 1889

_Sixth row_

Montana November 8, 1889
Washington November 11, 1889
Idaho July 3, 1890
Wyoming July 10, 1890
Utah January 4, 1896
Oklahoma November 16, 1907
New Mexico January 6, 1912
Arizona February 14, 1912

FLAG ANNIVERSARIES

January 1-2, 1776: Grand Union Flag (British Union and thirteen
stripes) hoisted over Washington's headquarters at Cambridge,
Massachusetts. This was the first real flag of the colonies.

January 13, 1794: American flag changed by act of Congress, owing
to two new States (Kentucky and Vermont) being admitted to the
Union. The flag now had two stars and two stripes added to it,
making fifteen stripes and stars. This was the "Star-Spangled
Banner," and under this flag our country fought and won three
wars--the so-called naval war with France, in 1798-1800; that with
the Barbary States in 1801-1805; and that with England in 1812-1815.

February 3, 1783: First appearance of the American flag in a
British port by the ship Bedford, of Massachusetts, which arrived
in the river Thames on this date.

February 8, 1776: Colonial Congressional Committee accepted a naval
flag, consisting of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, with
a rattlesnake diagonally across it.

February 14, 1778: First foreign salute to the Stars and Stripes.
John Paul Jones entered Quiberon Bay, near Brest, France, and
received a salute of nine guns from the French fleet, under Admiral
La Motte Piquet. Jones had previously saluted the French fleet with
thirteen guns.

March 17, 1776: The first display of the Grand Union Flag in Boston
was on the day that town was evacuated by the British.

April 4, 1818: Congress by act decreed a return to the original
thirteen stripes and a star for every State in the Union, to be
added to the flag on the July 4 following a State's admission to
the Union. This is the present law in relation to the flag.

April 24, 1778: John Paul Jones achieved the honor of being the
first officer of the American Navy to compel a regular British
man-of-war to strike her colors to the new flag.

June 14, 1777: First strictly American flag decreed by Congress.
This flag displaced the British Union by thirteen stars, and the
making of the first flag of this design is accredited to Betsy Ross
of Philadelphia. It contained thirteen stripes, alternate red and
white, and thirteen white stars upon a blue field.

June 14, 1777: Captain John Paul Jones appointed to the command of
the Ranger. It was Jones who first displayed the Stars and Stripes
on a naval vessel. It was also he who had previously first hoisted
"the flag of America" on board the naval vessel Alfred in 1775.

June 28, 1778: First appearance on a foreign strong-hold at Nassau,
Bahama Islands. The Americans captured Fort Nassau from the
British, and promptly raised the Stars and Stripes.

August 3, 1777: First display of the Stars and Stripes on land was
over Fort Stanwix, New York.

August 10, 1831: The name "Old Glory" given to our national flag by
Captain William Driver, of the brig Charles Doggert. The flag was
presented to the captain and contained one hundred and ten yards of
bunting. It is said to be now in the Essex Institute, at Salem,
Massachusetts.

September 11, 1777: The American flag first carried in battle at
the Brandywine. This was the first great battle fought after its
adoption by the Continental Congress.

September 13, 1784: The Stars and Stripes first displayed in China
by Captain John Green, of the ship Empress, in Canton River. The
natives said it was as beautiful as a flower, and the Chinese
continued to call it the "flower flag" for many years.

September 30, 1787-August 10, 1790: The American flag completed its
first trip around the world, borne by the ship Columbia, sailing
from Boston.

October 18, 1867: First official display of the American flag in
Alaska. On this day, at Sitka, the capital, the Russian flag was
hauled down and the American flag run up before the barracks and in
the presence of both Russian and American troops.

SELECTIONS

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,--
'Tis the star-spangled banner; Oh! long may it wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave;
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with victory and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto--"In God is our trust";
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

THE FLAG IN THE DARKNESS

BENJAMIN HARRISON

I was never so profoundly touched with the beauty of our flag as at night time in one of our immense political demonstrations. One of the features of the occasion was the sending upward of a mighty stream of electric light which, piercing the darkness of the night, reached a large flag which had been carried on cords a thousand feet from the earth. The scene was too impressive for me to describe. I can only say that it did seem as though the flag of our country was waving from the very battlements of heaven.... God pity the American citizen who does not love the flag; who does not see in it the story of our great, free institutions, and the hope of the home as well as the Nation.

A SONG FOR FLAG DAY

WILBUR D. NESBIT

Your Flag and my Flag!
And how it flies to-day
In your land and my land
And half a world away!
Rose-red and blood-red
The stripes forever gleam;
Snow-white and soul-white--
The good forefathers' dream;
Sky-blue and true blue, with stars to gleam aright--
The gloried guidon of the day; a shelter through the night.

Your Flag and my Flag!
And, oh, how much it holds--
Your land and my land--
Secure within its folds!
Your heart and my heart
Beat quicker at the sight;
Sun-kissed and wind-tossed,
Red and blue and white.
The one Flag,--the great Flag--the Flag for me and you--
Glorified all else beside--the red and white and blue!

Your Flag and my Flag!
To every star and stripe
The drums beat as hearts beat
And fifers shrilly pipe!
Your Flag and my Flag--
A blessing in the sky;
Your hope and my hope--
It never hid a lie!
Home land and far land and half the world around,
Old Glory hears our glad salute and ripples to the sound.

THE FLAG GOES BY

HENRY HOLCOMB BENNETT

Hats off!
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,
A flash of color beneath the sky:
Hats off!
The flag is passing by!

Blue and crimson and white it shines,
Over the steel-tipped, ordered lines.
Hats off!
The colors before us fly;
But more than the flag is passing by.

Sea-fights and land-fights, grim and great,
Fought to make and to save the State:
Weary marches and sinking ships;
Cheers of victory on dying lips;

Days of plenty and years of peace;
March of a strong land's swift increase;
Equal justice, right and law,
Stately honor and reverent awe;

Sign of a nation, great and strong
To ward her people from foreign wrong:
Pride and glory and honor,--all
Live in the colors to stand or fall.

Hats off!
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums;
And loyal hearts are beating high:
Hats off!
The flag is passing by!

WHAT THE FLAG STANDS FOR

HENRY CABOT LODGE

The flag stands for all that we hold dear--freedom, democracy, government of the people, by the people, and for the people. These are the great principles for which the flag stands, and when that democracy and that freedom and that government of the people are in danger, then it is our duty to defend the flag which stands for them all, and in order to defend the flag and keep it soaring as it soars here to-day, undimmed, unsullied, victorious over the years, we must be ready to defend it, and like the men of '76 and '61, pledge to it our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

UNION AND LIBERTY

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

Flag of the heroes who left us their glory,
Borne through their battle-fields' thunder and flame,
Blazoned in song and illumined in story,
Wave o'er us all who inherit their fame!
Up with our banner bright,
Sprinkled with starry light,
Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore,
While through the sounding sky
Loud rings the Nation's cry,--
UNION AND LIBERTY! ONE EVERMORE!

Light of our firmament, guide of our Nation,
Pride of her children, and honored afar,
Let the wide beams of thy full constellation
Scatter each cloud that would darken a star!
Up with our banner bright, etc.

Empire unsceptred! What foe shall assail thee,
Bearing the standard of Liberty's van?
Think not the God of thy fathers shall fail thee,
Striving with men for the birthright of man.
Up with our banner bright, etc.

Yet if, by madness and treachery blighted,
Dawns the dark hour when the sword thou must draw,
Then with the arms of thy millions united,
Smite the bold traitors to Freedom and Law!
Up with our banner bright, etc.

Lord of the Universe: shield us and guide us,
Trusting thee always, through shadow and sun!
Thou hast united us, who shall divide us?
Keep us, oh keep us the MANY IN ONE!
Up with =our= banner bright,
Sprinkled with starry light,
Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore,
While through the sounding sky
Loud rings the nation's cry,--
UNION AND LIBERTY! ONE EVERMORE!

YOUR COUNTRY AND YOUR FLAG

EDWARD EVERETT HALE

"If you are ever tempted to say a word or to do a thing that shall put a bar between you and your country, pray God in His mercy to take you that instant home to His own heaven. Stick by your family, boy; forget you have a self, while you do everything for them. Think of your home, boy; write and send, and talk about it. Let it be nearer and nearer to your thoughts, the farther you have to travel from it; and rush back to it when you are free. And for your country, boy,"--and the words rattled in his throat,--"and for that flag,"--and he pointed to the ship,--"never dream a dream but of serving her as she bids you, though the service carry you through a thousand hells. No matter what happens to you, no matter who flatters you or who abuses you, never look to another flag, never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag. Remember, boy, that behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the Country Herself, your Country, and that you belong to Her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by Her, boy, as you would stand by your mother."

THE HOME FLAG

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

And at the masthead,
White, blue, and red,
A flag unrolls the stripes and stars.
Ah! when the wanderer, lonely, friendless,
In foreign harbors shall behold
That flag unrolled,
'T will be as a friendly hand
Stretched out from his native land,
Filling his heart with memories sweet and endless!

OLD FLAG

HUBBARD PARKER

What shall I say to you, Old Flag?
You are so grand in every fold,
So linked with mighty deeds of old,
So steeped in blood where heroes fell,
So torn and pierced by shot and shell,
So calm, so still, so firm, so true,
My throat swells at the sight of you, Old Flag.

What of the men who lifted you, Old Flag,
Upon the top of Bunker's Hill,
Who crushed the Briton's cruel will,
'Mid shock and roar and crash and scream,
Who crossed the Delaware's frozen stream,
Who starved, who fought, who bled, who died,
That you might float in glorious pride, Old Flag?

Who of the women brave and true, Old Flag,
Who, while the cannon thundered wild,
Sent forth a husband, lover, child.
Who labored in the field by day,
Who, all the night long, knelt to pray,
And thought that God great mercy gave,
If only freely you might wave, Old Flag?

What is your mission now, Old Flag?
What but to set all people free,
To rid the world of misery,
To guard the right, avenge the wrong,
And gather in one joyful throng
Beneath your folds in close embrace
All burdened ones of every race, Old Flag?

Right nobly do you lead the way, Old Flag,
Your stars shine out for liberty.
Your white stripes stand for purity,
Your crimson claims that courage high
For Honor's sake to fight and die.
Lead on against the alien shore!
We'll follow you e'en to Death's door, Old Flag!

BRITANNIA TO COLUMBIA

ALFRED AUSTIN

What is the voice I hear
On the winds of the western sea?
Sentinel, listen from out Cape Clear
And say what the voice may be.
'Tis a proud free people calling loud to a people proud and free.

And it says to them: "Kinsmen, hail;
We severed have been too long.
Now let us have done with a worn-out tale--
The tale of an ancient wrong--
And our friendship last long as love doth last and be stronger
than death is strong."

Answer them, sons of the self-same race,
And blood of the self-same clan;
Let us speak with each other face to face
And answer as man to man,
And loyally love and trust each other as none but free men can.

Now fling them out to the breeze,
Shamrock, Thistle, and Rose,
And the Star-Spangled Banner unfurl with these--
A message of friends and foes
Wherever the sails of peace are seen and wherever the war wind
blows--

A message to bond and thrall to wake,
For wherever we come, we twain,
The throne of the tyrant shall rock and quake,
And his menace be void and vain,
For you are lords of a strong young land and we are lords of
the main.

Yes, this is the voice on the bluff March gale;
We severed have been too long,
But now we are done with a worn-out tale--
The tale of an ancient wrong--
And our friendship shall last long as love doth last and be
stronger than death is strong.

MAKERS OF THE FLAG

FRANKLIN K. LANE

[A portion of an address delivered by the Secretary of the Interior
to the employees of the Department of the Interior, on Flag Day,
1914.]

This morning as I passed into the Land Office, The Flag dropped me a most cordial salutation, and from its rippling folds I heard it say: "Good-morning Mr. Flag Maker."

"I beg your pardon, Old Glory," I said, "aren't you mistaken? I am not the President of the United States, nor a member of Congress, nor even a general in the army. I am only a Government clerk."

"I greet you again, Mr. Flag Maker," replied the gay voice; "I know you well. You are the man who worked in the swelter of yesterday straightening out the tangle of that farmer's homestead in Idaho, or perhaps you found the mistake in that Indian contract in Oklahoma, or helped to clear that patent for the hopeful inventor in New York, or pushed the opening of that new ditch in Colorado, or made that mine in Illinois more safe, or brought relief to the old soldier in Wyoming. No matter; whichever one of these beneficient individuals you may happen to be, I give you greeting, Mr. Flag Maker."

I was about to pass on, when The Flag stopped me with these words:--

"Yesterday the President spoke a word that made happier the future of ten million peons in Mexico; but that act looms no larger on the flag than the struggle which the boy in Georgia is making to win the Corn Club prize this summer.

"Yesterday the Congress spoke a word which will open the door of Alaska; but a mother in Michigan worked from sunrise until far into the night, to give her boy an education. She, too, is making the flag.

"Yesterday we made a new law to prevent financial panics, and yesterday, maybe, a school teacher in Ohio taught his first letters to a boy who will one day write a song that will give cheer to the millions of our race. We are all making the flag."

"But," I said impatiently, "these people were only working!"

Then came a great shout from The Flag:--

"The work that we do is the making of the flag.

"I am not the flag; not at all. I am nothing more than its shadow.

"I am whatever you make me, nothing more.

"I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a People may become.

"I live a changing life, a life of moods and passions, of heart breaks and tired muscles.

"Sometimes I am strong with pride, when workmen do an honest piece of work, fitting the rails together truly.

"Sometimes I droop, for then purpose has gone from me, and cynically I play the coward.

"Sometimes I am loud, garish, and full of that ego that blasts judgment.

"But always, I am all that you hope to be, and have the courage to try for.

"I am song and fear, struggle and panic, and ennobling hope.

"I am the day's work of the weakest man, and the largest dream of the most daring.

"I am the Constitution and the courts, statutes and the statute makers, soldier and dreadnaught, drayman and street sweep, cook, counselor, and clerk.

"I am the battle of yesterday, and the mistake of to-morrow.

"I am the mystery of the men who do without knowing why.

"I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution.

"I am no more than what you believe me to be, and I am all that you believe I can be.

"I am what you make me, nothing more.

"I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself, the pictured suggestion of that big thing which makes this nation. My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors. They are bright with cheer, brilliant with courage, firm with faith, because you have made them so out of your hearts. For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making."

OUR FLAG

MARGARET SANGSTER

Flag of the fearless-hearted,
Flag of the broken chain,
Flag in a day-dawn started,
Never to pale or wane.
Dearly we prize its colors,
With the heaven light breaking through,
The clustered stars and the steadfast bars,
The red, the white, and the blue.

Flag of the sturdy fathers,
Flag of the royal sons,
Beneath its folds it gathers
Earth's best and noblest ones.
Boldly we wave its colors,
Our veins are thrilled anew
By the steadfast bars, the clustered stars,
The red, the white, and the blue.

OUR HISTORY AND OUR FLAG[1]

WILLIAM BACKUS GUITTEAU

Love of country is a sentiment common to all peoples and ages; but no land has ever been dearer to its people than our own America. No nation has a history more inspiring, no country has institutions more deserving of patriotic love. Turning the pages of our nation's history, the young citizen sees Columbus, serene in the faith of his dream; the Mayflower, bearing the lofty soul of the Puritan; Washington girding on his holy sword; Lincoln, striking the shackles from the helpless slave; the constitution, organizing the farthest west with north and south and east into one great Republic; the tremendous energy of free life trained in free schools, utilizing our immense natural resources, increasing the nation's wealth with the aid of advancing science, multiplying fertile fields and noble workshops, and busy schools and happy homes.

This is the history for which our flag stands; and when the young citizen salutes the flag, he should think of the great ideals which it represents. The flag stands for democracy, for liberty under the law; it stands for heroic courage and self-reliance, for equality of opportunity, for self-sacrifice and the cause of humanity; it stands for free public education, and for peace among all nations. When you salute the flag, you should resolve that your own life will be dedicated to these ideals. You should remember that he is the truest American patriot who understands the meaning of our nation's ideals, and who pledges his own life to their realization.

[Footnote 1: From _Preparing for Citizenship_. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, 1915.]

THE AMERICAN FLAG

JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE

Flag of the free heart's hope and home!
By angel hands to valor given;
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome,
And all thy hues were born in heaven.
Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls before us,
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?

THE FLAG OF OUR COUNTRY

ROBERT C. WINTHROP

There is the national flag. He must be cold indeed who can look upon its folds, rippling in the breeze, without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearments. Its highest beauty is in what it symbolizes. It is because it represents all, that all gaze at it with delight and reverence.

It is a piece of bunting lifted in the air; but it speaks sublimely, and every part has a voice. Its stripes of alternate red and white proclaim the original union of thirteen States to maintain the Declaration of Independence. Its stars of white on a field of blue proclaim that union of States constituting our national constellation, which receives a new star with every new State. The two together signify union past and present.

The very colors have a language which was officially recognized by our fathers. White is for purity, red for valor, blue for justice; and altogether, bunting, stripes, stars, and colors blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.

AMERICA

SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH

My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountain-side
Let freedom ring.

My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,--
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.

Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet Freedom's song;
Let mortal tongues awake,
Let all that breathe partake,
Let rocks their silence break,--
The sound prolong.

Our fathers' God, to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by thy might,
Great God our King.

INDEX

Albany, reached by the Dutch, 2.

"Albany Plan," 18-19.

Alexandria, 61.

Alfred, the, the first American man-of-war, 35-38.

Algiers, the Dey of, yields to America, 58.

America, 3, 18, 25, 34, 46, 52;
overpowers the Dey of Algiers, 58.

"Ancient flag," the, 3.

Anderson, General, carries the flag from Fort Sumter, raises it again
in 1865, 72-73;
burial of, 74.

Andrea, Dona, saluted at one of the West Indian Islands, 45.

Arch Street, home of Betsy Ross, 40, 42.

Arizona, admitted to the Union, 66;
men from, at Santiago, 75.

Asia, sought by Henry Hudson, 1-2.

Atlantic Ocean, crossed by Henry Hudson, 1.

Bainbridge, Captain, carries Algerian ambassador to Constantinople,
57-58.

Baltimore, 50, 61.

Bedford, the flag of, 20-21.

Beecher, Henry Ward, speech of, at Fort Sumter, 73.

Bethlehem, 50.

Bon Homme Richard, sinking of the, 45-47.

Boston, arrival of stamps at, 15-16;
flag seen in, 34; 35.

Boston Harbor, 5;
tea dropped into, 30.

Brest Roads, 44.

Britain, 34.

British, besiege Fort Stanwix, 48.

Broadway, 53.

Brooklyn Navy Yard, flags for the navy made in the, 67.

Bunker Hill, flags at battle of, 21; 28, 29, 30, 32.

Bunting, not made in America until 1866, 66-67.

Cambridge, Indian volunteers come to, 29; 34, 39.

Carleton, Sir Guy, delayed in New York, 53.

Castle Island, ship made to strike her colors at, 5-6.

Chapultepec, taken by Americans, 70-71.

Charles II, and the New England coinage, 11.

Charleston, the flag of, 11-12;
stamped paper in, 15;
liberty flag in, 16;
flag of, after Bunker Hill, 22;
Liberty Tree of, 30;
cut down by Sir Henry Clinton, 31; 72.

China, the American flag in, 79.

Christina, becomes queen of Sweden, 2.

Civil War, the beginning of the, 71.

Clinton, Sir Henry, cuts down the Liberty Tree in Charleston, 31.

Columbus, 58.

Concord, 20.

Congress, 19;
sends a committee to Cambridge, 32;
orders building of cruisers, 35;
orders a flag, 41; 42; 43;
celebrates the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, 51;
decrees the star-spangled banner, 63-64.
_See also_ Continental Congress.

Connecticut, regimental colors of, 22;
motto of, 30.

Constantinople, Algerian ambassador carried to, 58.

Constitution, frigate, 57.

Continental Congress, 27;
weakness of the statement issued by the, 29;
Washington a member of the, 33; 37;
declares the colonies to be independent and decrees a flag, 39-40.

Cook, Captain, to be aided by all American cruisers, 38.

Copley, paints in the flag, 52.

Cotton, Dr. John, advises concerning the King's Flag, 6-7;
Indian chief resembles, 59.

Cuba, given up to the Cubans, 81-82.

Culpeper Minute Men, 25.

Daiquiri, landing place of the Rough Riders, 75.

Declaration of Independence, 32, 40;
flag made before the, 42;
first anniversary celebrated on the Delaware River, 51.

Delaware River, Swedes settle on the, 2;
pine tree flag on the, 35;
stars and stripes on the, 42;
celebration on the, 51.

Digby, Admiral, licenses a Nantucket skipper to go to London, 52.

Dix, General, 81.

Driver, Captain William, originates the name "Old Glory," 68.

Dutch, establish trading posts on the Hudson River, 2;
overpowered by the English, 2;
opposed by New Englanders, 9-10;
government of, inquires concerning the American flag, 65.

Dutch East India Company, Hudson sails in the employ of the, 1-2.

Elliot, Major, wife of, presents silken colors, 24.

Endicott, John, cuts the cross from the English flag, 4-5; 87.

England, flag of, brought to Jamestown, 2-3; 6; 18; 33;
flag of, pulled down in New York, 54; 66;
honors the Stars and Stripes, 84.

English East India Company, flag of the, 34.

Essex (county), 9.

Essex Institute, "Old Glory" sent to the, 69.

"Father of his Country," 33.

Fifteen stripes and fifteen stars, the flag of, 56-62.

Fillmore, President, sends letter to Japan, 77.

First Regiment of the United States Volunteer Cavalry, 74.
_See_ Rough Riders.

Flag anniversaries, 90-92.

"Flag Day," 87.

Flag etiquette, 85-89.

"Flower flag," the, 79.

Flamborough Head, 45.

Fort George, 53.

Fort McHenry, attacked by the British, 60.

Fort Moultrie, 23.

Fort Schuyler.
_See_ Fort Stanwix.

Fort Stanwix, flag made at, 48-49.

Fort Sumter, firing upon, begins the Civil War, 71-72;
flag raised upon, 73.

Fourth of July, Declaration of Independence on the, 39-40;
first anniversary of the, 51;
new stars to be added to the flag on the, 64;
honored in Sweden, 81.

France, war with, 57;
sells the Louisiana Territory to the United States, 58.

Franklin, Benjamin, proposes the "Albany Plan," 18-19; 24, 25, 26;
sent to Cambridge by Congress, 32; 34;
issues letters of marque, 37.

Frederick, burial place of Francis Scott Key, 61.

French, opposed by the New Englanders, 9-10;
meet the New Englanders at Louisburg, 12-13.

Gadsden, Christopher, speaks of possible independence, 30.

Gage, General, 21.

Gansevoort, Colonel Peter, commands Fort Stanwix, 49.

George III, proclamation of, 54.

"God Save the King," sung in St. Paul's Cathedral, 84.

Grand Army of the Republic, 74, 86.

Grand Council, part of the "Albany Plan," 18-19.

"Grand Union Flag," made in Cambridge, 33;
designer not known, 34; 39.

Great Britain, second war with, 57, 84.

Gustavus Adolphus, plans a settlement in America, 2; 80.

Hall, Lieutenant, rescues the flag at Fort Sumter, 72.

Hancock, John, presents a flag to General Putnam, 30.

Harrison, Benjamin, sent to Cambridge by Congress, 32.

Hart, Sergeant Peter, fastens the flag up on the ramparts at Fort
Sumter, 72;
presents it to be raised, 73.

Harvard College, used by troops, 28.

Havana, 82.

Hawthorne, tells the story of Endicott and the flag, 4-5;
of "The Pine-Tree Shillings," 11.

Hemisphere, on a flag, 11.

Henry, Patrick, 25.

Hessians, 51.

Holland, Hudson's vessel sailed from, the flag of, 1; 44.

Holmes, "Old Ironsides," poem of, 56.

House of Representatives, hoists the Star-Spangled Banner, 65.

Hudson, carries the Dutch flag into the Hudson River, 1-2.

Indian, enters embrasure at Louisburg, 13.

Indiana, 63.

Indians, Hudson welcomed by the, 1;
method of warfare, 8;
given flags, 12;
volunteer at Cambridge, 29;
fought by Washington, 33;
besiege Fort Schuyler, 48;
raise the American flag, 59.

Island of Knights, 80.

James I, changes the flag of England, 3.

James II, sends a flag to New England, leaves England, 10.

Jamestown, founded, 2.

Japan, opened by Perry, 77-79;
embassy from visits the United States, 78;
the friend of the United States, 79.

Jasper, William, rescues the flag at Fort Moultrie, 23-24.

Jersey City, 65.

Jones, John Paul, hoists a flag on the Alfred, 35-37;
forbidden to burn defenseless towns, 37;
put in command of the Ranger, 43;
receives a flag in Portsmouth and a salute in France, 43-45;
in command of the Bon Homme Richard, 45-47.

Journal, of Congress, 32.

Kansas, first raising of the United States flag in, 59.

Kentucky, admitted as a State, 56.

Kettle Hill, battle of, 76.

Key, Francis Scott, writes the "Star-Spangled Banner," 60-61.

King Philip's War, flag used in, 9.

"King's Flag," 3;
displayed at Castle Island, 6-7.

Lafayette visited by Pulaski, welcomed to Baltimore, 49, 50.

Las Guasimas, 75.

"Last battle of the Revolution," 53.

Lexington, 31;
battle of, 35; 39.

Liberty, the demand for, 14.

"Liberty Elm," Massachusetts history associated with the, 30.

"Liberty Hall," 16.

Liberty Pole, cut down in New York, 31.

"Liberty Tree," in Boston, 16, 17;
of South Carolina, 30;
Paine's poem on the, 31.

Lincoln, President, 72.

"Lion of the North," 2.

London, 52;
honors the Stars and Stripes, 84.

Longfellow, poem of, "Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem," 50.

Louisburg, the New Englanders at, 12-13.

Louisiana, admitted to the Union, 63.

Louisiana Territory, purchased by the United States, 58.

Lowell, quotation from, 63.

Lowell (city), bunting made in, 66.

Lynch, Thomas, sent to Cambridge by Congress, 32.

Maryland, 61.

Massachusetts, troubles concerning the cross in the flag, 4-7; 8, 9;
flag of the "Three County Troop" in, 9;
use of "pine tree" in, 10, 11, 15;
flag of, after Bunker Hill, 22; 27;
motto of, 30;
decrees the use of the pine-tree flag, 35; 66; 68; 86.

Mediterranean Sea, freed from Pirates, 58.

Memorial Day, 81.

Mexico, war with, 70.

Mexico, the City of, captured by Americans, 70-71.

Middlesex (county), 9, 20.

Monroe, President, signs a bill decreeing the use of the Star-Spangled
Banner, 64.

Moravian Sisters, make banner for Pulaski, 50.

Morris, Robert, 40.

Mottoes on flags, 12, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 25, 28, 30, 36, 54.

Moultrie, 71.

Moultrie, Colonel, defends Fort Moultrie, 23-24.

Nantucket, 52, 53.

Nashville, 68.

National Museum, "Star-Spangled Banner" of Francis Scott Key in, 61.

Netherlands, flag of the, 34.

New Amsterdam, 2.

Newbury, flag of the militia in, 8-9.

Newburyport, patrol, of, 15.

New England, alliance of the folk of, 9-10; 18.

New Englanders, 10;
set off to capture Louisburg, 12.

"New England Flag," the, 21.

New Hampshire, 15, 43.

New Haven, peace rejoicing in, 54.

New Mexico, admitted to the Union, 66.

New World, 2, 58.

New York, founded by the Dutch, 2;
flag of, 15;
arrival of stamps at, 16;
liberty pole in, 17-18;
hoists flag with beaver device, 22; 27; 31;
State of, 48;
Sir Guy Carleton delayed in, 53; 64; 72.

_New York Sun_, 82.

North Pole, discovered by Admiral Peary, 83.

Ohio, admitted to the Union, 63.

"Old Glory," origin of the name and story of, 68-69;
in three wars, 70.

"Old Ironsides," frigate, poem by Holmes, 57.

"Old Thirteen," 2.

Oliver, hanged in effigy in Boston, 15-16.

Oscar, king of Sweden, 81.

Page family, as color bearers, 20.

Paine, Thomas, poem of on the "Liberty Tree," 31.

Pearson, Captain, yields to John Paul Jones, 45.

Peary, Admiral Robert E., carries the flag to the North Pole, 82-83.

Pennsylvania, 32, 50, 55.

_Pennsylvania Gazette_, 19.

_Pennsylvania Journal_, 25.

Perry, Commodore M. C., carries the letter of President Fillmore to
Japan, 77-79.

Philadelphia, 18, 37, 39, 40, 55.

Philadelphia Light Horse Troop, escorts Washington to New York, 27;
flag of the, 27-28, 33.

Phoenix, 74.

Pike, Lieut. Z. M., and the Indians, 59.

Pilgrims, 34.

Pine tree, on flag, 10, 11, 21, 35;
used on the Delaware River, 35.

"Pine-Tree Shillings, The," Hawthorne's story of, 11.

Pope's Creek, birthplace of Washington, 61.

Portsmouth, banner in, 15;
the "quilting party" flag, 43-47.

Poughkeepsie, 49.

Prospect Hill, 29;
flag raised on, 34.

Pulaski, Count, the banner of, 49-50.

Puritans, troubled by the cross in the flag, 4-7.

Putnam, Major-General Israel, 29;
flag presented to, by John Hancock, 30.

Quaker City, the, 27.

Ranger, command of, given to Jones, 43;
the flag of, and its salute, 43-45.

Rattlesnake, on flag of Charleston, 22;
a favorite emblem, 24-26; 35;
on flag of the Alfred, 37.

Reid, Captain, S. C., designs the flag with stars arranged in one
star, 65.

Revere, Paul, 20.

Revolutionary War, 21.

Rhode Island, hoists a flag with the anchor device, 22.

Roman Catholic Church, the cross regarded as the badge of the, 4.

Rome, 48.

Ross, Betsy, makes the first flag with stars and stripes, 40-42.

Ross, Mrs. Elizabeth Griscom, 40, 48.
_See_ Betsy Ross.

Ross, Colonel, 40, 42.

"Rough Riders," 74.

St. Andrew, the cross of, 3, 18, 33.

St. George's Cross, united with the cross of St. Andrew, 3;
cut out of the flag by Endicott, 4-5;
in the flag sent by James II to New England, in the pine-tree
flag, 10; 18; 21; 32; 34.

St. Paul, Cathedral of, 84.

Salem, cross cut from the flag in, 4-5, 8, 68.

San Juan Hill, the battle of, 76.

Santiago, attacked by the Rough Riders, 75.

Savannah, flag hoisted at, 22, 24.

Scotland, the flag of, 3; 33.

Serapis, taken by Jones, 45-47.

Six Nations, 18.

Somerville, flag raised in, 34.

Sons of Liberty, 15;
put up a liberty pole, 17-18;
meetings of the, 30.

South Carolina, 11;
treatment of stamped paper in, 14; 30; 32.

Spain, owner of the Louisiana Territory, 59;
war with, 74, 81.

Spaniards, repulsed at Las Guasimas, 75.

Spanish-American War, 81, 87.

Stamp Act, 14;
repeal of the, 17; 30.

Stars and Stripes, first salute to, 45;
replace the English flag in New York, 54;
at Fort McHenry, 60;
at Chapultepec, 71;
fired upon at Fort Sumter, 71-72;
raised again at Fort Sumter, 72-73;
in Japan, 78;
in China, 79;
in Sweden, 81;
honored in England, 84;
behavior towards the, 85-87.

"Star-Spangled Banner, The," written by Francis Scott Key, 60-61;
played at Fort Sumter, 73;
sung in St. Paul's Cathedral, 84.

Stiles, President, describes the New Haven rejoicing for peace, 54.

Stockholm, 80.

Suffolk (county), 9.

Swartwout, Captain Abram, cloak of, used for flag at Fort Stanwix, 48-49.

Sweden, American flag raised in, 79-81.

Swedes, settle on the Delaware River, are overpowered by the Dutch, 2;
opposed by the New Englanders, 9-10.

Tennessee, admitted to the Union, 63; 68.

Thames, the royal seal tossed into the, 10.

"Thirteen," 51, 63.

Thirteen stripes, first used, 28.

Thomas, William W., raises American flag in Sweden, 79-81.

Trenton, 51.

Tripoli, war with, 57.

Trumbull, battle of Bunker Hill painted by, 21.

"Union Flag," 18, 22;
made at Cambridge, 33;
worn by the Alfred, 37.

Union Jack, 3;
given to the Indians, 12; 18; 84.

United Colonies, 34.

"Unite or die," motto of the "Albany Plan," 18.

United States, 26, 51, 52;
left by British troops, 53; 54, 55, 58;
buys the Louisiana Territory, 58-59;
flag of, decided upon, 63-65;
flag manufactured in, 67;
opens intercourse with Japan, 78; 80;
flag of, hauled down in Cuba, 81-82; 83, 84, 87.

Vermont, admitted as a State, 56.

"Victory Tower," Star-Spangled Banner floats from, 84.

Virginia, 2, 3, 25, 33, 61.

Washington, 21;
goes to Boston, 27-29; 32;
coat-of-arms of, 33; 34; 40;
visits Betsy Ross, 41;
significance of the flag expressed by, 43; 61;
monument reared to in Baltimore, birthplace of marked, 61-62; 81.

Watson, Elkanah, flag painted in portrait of, by Copley, 52.

Wendover, Peter H., induces Congress to decree the Star-Spangled
Banner, 64.

Westminster Palace, 84.

Westmoreland County, 61.

West Point, burial place of General Anderson, 74.

Wood, General Leonard, 75;
delivers Cuba to the Cubans, 82.

Yale, 54.

Transcriber's Note:

* Footnote moved to end of article on Pg 114.

* Moved frontispiece illustration to Pg 1.

* Otherwise, archaic and inconsistent spelling and hyphenation retained.

* Pg 16 Corrected spelling of word "processsion" to "procession" located in the phrase "and marched in a log procession".

* Pg 43 "whereever" and Pg 107 "wherever" retained as printed.

* Pg 90 Replaced semi-colon with a colon after "1783" located in "February 3, 1783".

* Pg 92 Removed extraneous comma after "1787" located in "September 30, 1787,-August 10, 1790".

* Pg 119 Replaced comma with a semi-colon after "30" located in the phrase "cut down by Sir Henry Clinton, 30".

* Pg 119 Replaced comma with a semi-colon after "19" located in the phrase "Congress, 19".

* Pg 120 Added period after "39" located in "designer not known, 34; 39".

* Pg 121 Replaced period with a comma after "Jones" located in phrase "Pearson, captain, yields to John Paul Jones".

* Pg 122 Replaced period with a comma after "51" located in phrase ""Thirteen," 51".

End of Project Gutenberg's The Little Book of the Flag, by Eva March Tappan