Excerpt from How the Flag Became Old Glory<br><br>Charleston by Henry Timrod to the Century Company for Farragut by William Tuckey Meredith; to Mr. Harry L. Flash and the Neale Publishing Company for Stonewall Jackson by Henry Lynden Flash; to Mr. Will Henry Thompson and G. P. Putnam's Sons for The High Tide at Gettysburg; to Mr. Isaac R. Sherwood and G. P. Putnam's Sons for Albert Sidney Johnston by Kate Brownlee Sherwood; to Mrs. Benjamin Sledd and G. P. Putnam's Sons for United by Benjamin Sledd. An extract from Home Folks by James Whitcomb Riley, copyright, 1900, is used by permission of the pub lishers, The bobbs-merrill Company. The poems, Lexington by Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Building of the Ship and The Cumberland by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Yorktown by John Greenleaf Whittier, Fredericksburg by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Kearny at Seven Pines by E. C. Stedman, and Robert E. Lee by Julia Ward Howe are printed by permission of Houghton Miin Company.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This 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.