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How the flag became old glory (1915)

Scott, Emma Look Mrs., 1858- · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 27

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s. Onlegal holidays, on St. Patricks day (which washis own birthday), and on days of especial cele-bration in the Southern city Old Glory wasreleased from confinement and thrown to thelight from some window of the Driver residenceor hung on a rope across the street in a triumphalarch under which… … OLD GLORY 11 Just after the secession of the State he daringlyflaunted his Old Glory flag from his window;then, fearing its confiscation (which his actionhad rendered liable), he procured a calico quiltof royal purple hue, and with the aid of twoneighboring women sewed it up between thecoverings…

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