Our Flag and Our Songs

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Excerpt from Our Flag and Our Songs: A Brief Story of the Origin and Life of the United States Flag With a Selection of the Songs That Have Inspired the Nation in War and PeacePine trees and rattlesnakes were favorite devices, the latter especially in the Southern Colonies.At Bunker Hill, the first of the actual battles, the men behind the breastwork, all through that hot June day, fought under a blue flag with a red cross and pine tree in its upper corner.On one of the bastions of Fort Moultrie the South Carolinians raised a blue flag with a white crescent and "Liberty" inscribed thereon. It was this flag that, when shot from its staff during the bombardment, was rescued from the beach where it had fallen, by Sergeant Jasper, was fastened to a rammer, and replaced amid the cheers of his comrades.The need of a flag for our infant navy, which in 1775 consisted of floating batteries and small coasting craft, caused Washington to suggest that a white pine-tree flag bearing the motto "An Appeal to Heaven" be adopted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.