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of Grant" by Walt Whitman; to J. B. Lippincott Company for "The Cruise
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"United" by Benjamin Sledd. An extract from "Home Folks" by James
Whitcomb Riley, copyright, 1900, is used by permission of the
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Wendell Holmes, "The Building of the Ship" and "The Cumberland" by Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, "Yorktown" by John Greenleaf Whittier,
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CONTENTS

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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