The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-30

the American Revolution, and is made in accord
Rnce with the act of congress, June Ia, TIT. 1t Is
positively known to have been the %regimental
flag of the Third Maryland regiment, commanded
by Col. John Eager Howard, at the battle of Cow
pens, s. c., In January, 1878, in which fight 1t was
held by William Bachelor. Bachelor was sent
bome to Baltimore wounded and took his flag with
him.
After Bachelors death in March, 1871, the flag
remained in his family, and when the British in
vaded Maryland in 1914 this same flag was carried
by William, Bachelors son, in the battle of North
Point, as a banner for the Twenty-seventh Mary
land regiment. This William Bachelor died in 1885.
The flag, in 1907, was presented to the state Of
Maryland and has since then reposed in its capital
building at Annapolis.
Another famous banner is the battle flag of Com
mandant Oliver Hazard Perry, the same which
flew successfully on the masts of his fagships,
the Niagara and the Lawrence, in the battle of
Lake Erie, September, 1913. This flag had been
made at Perry's express command, but at the sug-
gestion Of Purser Hambleton, he added the words
1t bore, Don't give up the ship" the last uttered
by Captain Lawrence, killed in the fight in June,
1913, between the English and American forces.
These words have enormously been attributed to
Perry, but are, in fact, an adoption of Lawrence's
sentence to Perry's flag. The banner is a bunting
of one solid color bearing its famous motto in
large letters across its face, and is now kept at
the United States Naval academy at Annapolis.
A British Trophy.
In the same chamber at the academy is a gor.
geous royal British standard which was captured
from the parliament house when the capital Of
Canada fell, in 1913, into American hands. 1t is a
magnificent ensign with five quarterings, all In
radiant tones, the heraldic blazonry being such as
was used in the time of George III. In one corner
is a red lion poised in air, to denote Scotland; in
another is the golden harp of Ireland two other
quarters contain three golden rampant lions for
England, while in the central quartering is a COM
bination of the arms Of Saxony, Hanover, Bruins
wick and Luneburg, with some emblems of the
Holy Roman empire.
In the National museum in Washington is the
real Star Spangled Banner, the same flag which
foated over Fort McHenry in September, 1914,
when 1t was attacked by the British, and the one
around which Key wrote his immortal poem. Be
ing 80 by 90 feet, it will hang from the second story
of a building to the first floor. In spite of time
It is well preserved, and the stars and stripes
which CLEANED through the perilous fight" are
still plainly to be seen.
Mexican trophies are to be seen at the Naval
academy. These flags are all unique in design,
bearing the Mexican condor standing on a cactus,
with a snake in its mouth. There are several of
this war, one of them being the flag captured by
Gen. Winfield Scott and Commodore Matthew Per
ry at the fall of Vera Cruz in 1S47.
In the antechamber to the rooms of the secre-
tary of war, in Washington, is the famous flag
which flew over Fort Sumter in April, 1861, when
it was fired on by the Confederate batteries. This
was the shot which opened the great war between
the states.
The flag of the Merrimac is now owned by the
family of the late Capt Beverly Littlepage, for
merly of Washington D
Another flag of the Merrimac is in the posses