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Title: How the Flag Became Old Glory

Author: Emma Look Scott

Illustrator: A. C. Valentine

Release Date: January 20, 2009 [EBook #27853]

Language: English

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HOW THE FLAG
BECAME
OLD GLORY

[Illustration: United States]

E.L.SCOTT

HOW THE FLAG BECAME
OLD GLORY

[Illustration]

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO . DALLAS
ATLANTA . SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.
TORONTO

[Illustration:

Red, white and blue--it tells its own story--
But Spring, Who made it and named it Old Glory?--

_John Trotwood Moore._]

HOW THE FLAG BECAME
OLD GLORY

BY

EMMA LOOK SCOTT

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. C. VALENTINE

_New York_
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1915

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1912,
BY EMMA LOOK SCOTT.

COPYRIGHT, 1915,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1915.

_Norwood Press_
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE author acknowledges her indebtedness to the following authors and
publishers for their courtesy in allowing the use of copyright material:
to Mr. Wallace Rice for "Wheeler's Brigade at Santiago"; to Mr. Charles
Francis Adams for "Pine and Palm"; to Mr. Will Allen Dromgoole for
"Soldiers"; to Mr. John Howard Jewett for a selection from "Rebel
Flags"; to Mr. John Trotwood Moore for "Old Glory at Shiloh"; to Mr.
Henry Holcomb