. National star-spangled banner centennial, Baltimore, Maryland, September 6 to 13, 1914 . d Methodist Meet-ing House, still standing on the North Point Road, near Breadand Cheese Creek. His force was composed of the Fifth,Sixth, Twenty-seventh, Thirty-ninth and Fifty-first were made up of separate companies, some in uniformand others in their citizens clothes. In the haste and con-fusion of the day many still wore their silk hats. Incorporatedin these regiments was one company each from York, Han-over and Marietta, Pennsylvania, and one from Hagerstown,Maryland. All the rest w
. National star-spangled banner centennial, Baltimore, Maryland, September 6 to 13, 1914 . d Methodist Meet-ing House, still standing on the North Point Road, near Breadand Cheese Creek. His force was composed of the Fifth,Sixth, Twenty-seventh, Thirty-ninth and Fifty-first were made up of separate companies, some in uniformand others in their citizens clothes. In the haste and con-fusion of the day many still wore their silk hats. Incorporatedin these regiments was one company each from York, Han-over and Marietta, Pennsylvania, and one from Hagerstown,Maryland. All the rest were from Baltimore. While the opposing forces slept that night from a cloudlesssky the full moon shone brightly, its beams illuminating a hugeflag flying over Fort McHenry. Fifteen stripes, alternate redand white, the Union of fifteen stars, white in a blue field, itmeasured 36 by 29 feet. The flag was made by Mrs. MaryYoung Pickersgill, who was assisted by her two nieces. Mrs. Pickersgill had won no little fame as a designer ofships colors, pennants, etc. Commodore Barney, with the 23. FRANK BROWN EDWIN WARFIELD
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