Our country and its resources; . THE STARS AND STRIPES OF TO-DAY America was written by theRev. s. Francis Smith. I>.I>. Mason, one of the fathers ofmusic in this country, turned overto Dr. Smith some foreign music andasked him if he found anything par-ticularly good to write words forthe music. The latter found the tuneof (Jod Save the King, and wrotethe remarkable lyric at Andover, in February. 1832. It wasstruck out at a sitting with no ideaof its future popularity. The firsttime it was publicly sung was at achildrens celebration of AmericanIndependence, at the 1ark St
Our country and its resources; . THE STARS AND STRIPES OF TO-DAY America was written by theRev. s. Francis Smith. I>.I>. Mason, one of the fathers ofmusic in this country, turned overto Dr. Smith some foreign music andasked him if he found anything par-ticularly good to write words forthe music. The latter found the tuneof (Jod Save the King, and wrotethe remarkable lyric at Andover, in February. 1832. It wasstruck out at a sitting with no ideaof its future popularity. The firsttime it was publicly sung was at achildrens celebration of AmericanIndependence, at the 1ark StreetChurch. Boston, July I. THE AMERICAN FLAG 353 -*^2L- c-eH««^»v^ /Vi? erf* J^r ce/ •^r «*£, &®>6fy^£jj£/y, The Confederate flags are of con-siderable interest. The first wasknown as the Stars and was adopted at Montgomery,March 4, 1861, the day AbrahamLincoln was inaugurated. It wasfound that this flag was too much. &>-rtj- 6^ THE FIRST CONFEDERATE FLAG, THE•STARS AND BARS
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