"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 Mifflin Company. CONTENTS PAGE THE FLAG GOES BY 1 OLD GLORY 3 IN THE LIGHT OF THE OLD NORTH CHURCH 19 LEXINGTON 23 ON THE EVE OF BUNKER HILL 27 THE FLAG OF FORT STANWIX 31 THE KNIGHT OF THE SEA 39 WHERE THE STARS AND STRIPES UNFURLED 51 THE SURRENDER OF BURGOYNE 56 THE YOKE OF BRITAIN BROKEN 57 YORKTOWN 60 FROM THE OTHER SIDE 62 THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER 66 THE DEFENSE OF THE CRESCENT CITY 68 THE CIVIL WAR 77 CHARLESTON 79 FREDERICKSBURG 81 CIVIL WAR 82 'ROUND SHILOH CHURCH 84 ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON 91 OLD GLORY AT SHILOH 96 THE FLAG OF THE CUMBERLAND 100 THE CUMBERLAND 104 THE MONITOR 107 THE CRUISE OF THE MONITOR 110 THE NIGHT OF CHANTILLY 114 KEARNEY AT SEVEN PINES 120 THE CAVALRY CHARGE 122 AN IMMORTAL TWAIN 125 STONEWALL JACKSON 132 THE HIGH TIDE AT GETTYSBURG 133 UNITED 138 OLD HEART OF OAK 140 FARRAGUT 151 PINE AND PALM 154 THE CONQUERED BANNER 157 THE CONQUERED BANNER 159 DEATH OF GRANT 162 ROBERT E. LEE 164 OLD GLORY ON THE ISLAND 166 WHEELER'S BRIGADE AT SANTIAGO 170 SOLDIERS 172 HOW THE FLAG BECAME OLD GLORY HOW THE FLAG BECAME OLD GLORY THE FLAG GOES BY HATS off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, A flash of color beneath the sky; Hats off! The flag is passing by! Blue and crimson and white it shines, Over the steel-tipped ordered lines, Hats off! The colors before us fly! But more than the flag is passing by.