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 . General Beauregard, and which differs only in some detailsfrom that I have given under General Beauregards own hand. He adds, however, thefiret three flags received were made from ladies dresses, bj the Misses Carey, of Alexan-dria and Baltimore, at their residences and the residences of friends, as soon as theycould get a description of th
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 . General Beauregard, and which differs only in some detailsfrom that I have given under General Beauregards own hand. He adds, however, thefiret three flags received were made from ladies dresses, bj the Misses Carey, of Alexan-dria and Baltimore, at their residences and the residences of friends, as soon as theycould get a description of the design adopted. One of the Misses Carey sent the flag shemade to General Beauregard. Her sister sent hers to General Van Dorn, who was tlienat Fairfax Court House. Miss Constance Carey, of Alexandria, sent hers to GeneralJoseph E. Johnston. General Beauregard sent the flag he received at ouce to NewOrleans for safe keeping. After the fall of New Orleans, Mrs. Beauregard sent the flag,by a Spanish man-of-war then lying in the river opposite New Orleans, to Cuba, whereit remained till the close gf the war, when it was returned to General Beauregard, whopresented it, for safe keeping, to the Washington Artillery of New Orleans. Va.^t> ^3J» PL Yn. THE BOYS IN BLUE. Returning th^ Stale Flags to the Govenwr nf renjifndvania^.Independence Square, U LY 4»- 18 66. PART YL 1865-1880. THE END OF THE WAR AGAINST THE UNION AND THE FLAG. THE RETURN OF THE FLAGS OF THE VOLUNTEERREGIMENTS TO THEIR STATES. THE DISPOSITION OF THE TROPHY FLAGS OF THE WAR. ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS. STATE FLAGS AND COLORS. * Now silent are the forests old, amid whose cool retreatsGreat armies met, and from tlie sliore liave passed the hostile hear no more the trumpets bray or bugles stirring call,And full of dents, in quiet slieathed, tlie swords liang on the wall. Oer frowning ramparts, where once shone the sentiys gleaming steel,In swift and widely circling flight the purple s
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