The flag of fifteen stripes and fifteen stars decreed by Congress--Worn by "Old Ironsides"--Leads against Tripoli--Seen at Constantinople--Among the Indians of the Louisiana Territory--"The Star-Spangled Banner"--Marking the birthplace of Washington. X. THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER 63 Congress decrees the present flag--No law for the arrangement of the stars--The manufacture of bunting--Flags for the navy--Flags for the War Department--"Old Glory." XI. THE FLAG IN WAR 70 The flag at Chapultepec--The surrender of Fort Sumter--The flag raised again at Fort Sumter--The Arizona flag of the Rough Riders. XII. THE FLAG IN PEACE 77 Perry opens Japan to the world--Raising the flag over the legation in Sweden--Hauling down the flag in Cuba--The flag at the North Pole--The flag on Westminster Palace. XIII. HOW TO BEHAVE TOWARD THE FLAG 85 FLAG ANNIVERSARIES 90 SELECTIONS The Star-Spangled Banner _Francis Scott Key_ 93 The Flag in the Darkness _Benjamin Harrison_ 95 A Song for Flag Day _Wilbur D. Nesbit_ 96 The Flag goes by _Henry Holcomb Bennett_ 98 What the Flag stands for _Henry Cabot Lodge_ 100 Union and Liberty _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 101 Your Country and your Flag _Edward Everett Hale_ 103 The Home Flag _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 104 Old Flag _Hubbard Parker_ 105 Britannia to Columbia _Alfred Austin_ 107 Makers of the Flag _Franklin K. Lane_ 109 Our Flag _Margaret Sangster_ 112 Our History and our Flag _William Backus Guitteau_ 113 The American Flag _Joseph Rodman Drake_ 115 The Flag of our Country _Robert C. Winthrop_ 116 America _Samuel Francis Smith_ 117 INDEX 119 THE LITTLE BOOK OF THE FLAG [Illustration] CHAPTER I THE FLAGS THAT BROUGHT THE COLONISTS