The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-06-29


the American Revolution, and Is made In accord
ance with the act of congress- June IA. 1777 It Is
positively known to have been the regimenta
flag Of the Third Maryland regiment commanded
by Col. John Eager Howard, at the battle Of Cow
pens, ). G., In January, ITS In which fight 1t
held by William Bachelor. Bachelor was sent
home to Baltimore wounded and took his flag with
him.
After Bachelors death In March, 1881. the flag
remained In his family, and when the British In
vaded Maryland In 1914 this same flag carried
Dy 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, presented to the state of
Maryland and has since then reposed in it's capital
building ut Annapolis.
Another famous banner Is the battle flag of Com
mandant Oliver Hazard Perry the same which
few 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.
1873 between the English and American forces.
These words have enormously been attributed to
Perry, but are, In fact, adoption Of Lawrence's
sentence to Perry's flag. The banner Is bunting
Of one solid color bearing its famous motto In
large letters across its face and Is kept at
the United States Naval academy at Annapolis
British Trophy.
In the same chamber at the academy is gor-
geous royal British standard which captured
from the parliament house when the capital of
Canada fell, In 1913. into American hands. 1t Is
magnificent ensign with five quarterings, all In
radiant tones, the heraldic blazonry being such as
used In the time of George Ill In one corner
Is red lion poised In air, to denote Scotand In
another Is the golden harp of Ireland; two other
quarters contain three golden rampant lions for
England, while In the central quartering is COM
blnation 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
loated 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 SO by 20 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 at the Naval
academy. These flags are all unique In design.
bearing the Mexican condor standing on cactus.
with 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-
~ 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 fred on by the Confederate batteries. This
was the shot which opened the great war between
the states.
The flag of the Merrimac is owned by the
family Of the late Capt. Beverly Llttlepage, for
merly of Washington.
Another flag of the Merrimac is in the posses