History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . n I had read it and expressed my admiration, 1asked him how he found time, in the scenes he had been passingthrouL,di, to compose such a song. He said lie commenceil it on thedeck of his vessel [the cartel Minden], in the fervor of the moment,when he saw the enemy liastily retreating to their ships, and lookedat the flag he had so anxiously
History of the flag of the United States of America : and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals, and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations . n I had read it and expressed my admiration, 1asked him how he found time, in the scenes he had been passingthrouL,di, to compose such a song. He said lie commenceil it on thedeck of his vessel [the cartel Minden], in the fervor of the moment,when he saw the enemy liastily retreating to their ships, and lookedat the flag he had so anxiously watched for, as the morning opened; thathe had written some lines, or brief notes that would aid him in callingthem to mind, upon the back of a letter whicli he happened to have inhis pocket; and for some of the lines as he proceeded he was obligedto rely altogether upon his memory ; and that he finished it in the boat[the cartel] on his way to the shore, and wrote it out, as it now stands,at the hotel, on the night he reached Baltimore, and immediately afterhe arrived. The next morning he took it to Judge Nicliolson,^ toask him what he thought of it; and he was so much pleased with it,that he immediately sent it to the printer, Benjamin Edes,^ and. Bomhardincnl of Furl .Wjunrxj. Jlallimcre itji4. directed copies to be struck off in handbill form. (His apprentice,Samuel Sands, who was living in Baltimore in 1878, set it in type).In less than an hour after it was placed in tlie hands of the printer 1 Judge Nicholson and Mr. Key were nearly connected, tlieir wives being the Chief Justice of Maiyland, and a judge of the Court of Appeals of Mary-land, as a volunteer he commanded a company in Fort McHenry at tlio bombardment. 2 Edes was a captain in the Twenty-seventh Baltimore Regiment, commanded byColonel Long, which had recently done good service in the battle of North Point. NATIONAL AND PATRIOTIC SONGS. 725 it was all over the town, and hailed with enthusiasm, a
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