Our flag and our songs; a brief story of the origin and life of the United States flag (1917)
Ogden, Henry Alexander, 1856-1936 · New York, E.J. Clode · leaf 22
ake effect on the 4th of July next [18] The Flag of Fifteen Stars and Fifteen Stripes succeeding such admission. Since that time,when there were twenty stars, twenty-eight havebeen added. So to-day Old Glory contains forty-eight stars arranged in six rows eight stars wide —a form agreed upon by the… … FORT SUMTER 5-C-APRIL-12- 166l 1861, to thirty-four, and in 1863, by the admissionof West Virginia, to thirty-five. During the four long years of civil strife *01dGlory never changed, the stars of the secededstates were not removed, and when peace came in1865 they were still in place. Countless…
Flags -- United States · National songs -- United States
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