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How the Flag Came to be Called Old Glory - Smithsonian Magazine

She set about documenting the history of the flag her father had given her, and in 1918 published her own account, Old Glory, The True Story, in which she ...

The True Story of a Flag Named Old Glory - National Flag Foundation

You may think 'Old Glory' is just a fun nickname for the United States flag, but the term once referred to one very speciall 19th century American Flag with ...

“Old Glory'' - VA.gov

The name “Old Glory” was first applied to the U.S. flag by a young sea captain who lived in Salem, Mass. On his twenty-first birthday, March 17, 1824, Capt.

A Tennessee Connection: The Story of Old Glory

The Confederate Army wanted ALL American flags destroyed! Driver did not want that to happen to his flag, so he hid it. He had it sewn between ...

The story behind 'Old Glory' and how the American flag received this ...

The American flag is called “Old Glory” because of shipmaster and captain William Driver. During his career at sea, Driver appreciated the ...

Old Glory Turns 241: > U.S. Navy - All Hands > Display Story

The Star Spangled Banner; the Stars and Stripes; the Red, White and Blue; Old Glory - first adopted June 14, 1777, the American flag has been a symbol of ...

This Is the Story of Our Beloved Old Glory | soldier - Facebook

At the National Museum of American History, we're unrolling the very first US flag to be called Old Glory. You know, this is how couture ...

Old Glory - Wikipedia

Old Glory is a nickname for the flag of the United States. The original "Old Glory" was a flag owned by the 19th-century American sea captain William Driver ...

History of the American Flag | A Capitol Fourth - PBS

The name Old Glory was given to a large, 10-by-17-foot flag by its owner, William Driver, a sea captain from Massachusetts. Inspiring the common nickname ...

Old Glory flag | National Museum of American History

When Tennessee seceded from the Union, Driver had the foresight to hide the flag and had his daughter conceal it inside a quilt, which was overlooked in ...

National Flag Day – Why do we call her Old Glory?

Driver was given an American flag, sewn by his mother, to celebrate him becoming a commander of his own ship. For over a decade, the flag – that ...

Flag Day: The story behind 'Old Glory' - YouTube

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Why is the American flag Called 'Old Glory?' - StarSpangledFlags.com

The story of Old Glory can be traced back to the mid-19th century. In 1831, a ship captain from Massachusetts named William Driver coined the ...

Old Glory Continues to Inspire Drama and Intrigue - The Sextant

No longer flying his Old Glory from the mast of a ship, Driver raised the flag each morning at his home. As grumblings of secession grew in the ...

This Day in History: “Old Glory” gets its name - Tara Ross

On (maybe) this day in 1831, a sea captain from Massachusetts names his American flag “Old Glory.” The name that Captain William Driver gave to his flag stuck.

Uncover the deeper meaning behind our symbols - Old Glory DC

We like to think that, at that very moment, thousands of miles away in Salem Massachusetts, Captain Driver's mother had begun to sew the flag ...

Flag Day: Here are 5 things you might not know about 'Old Glory'

The flag got its “Old Glory” nickname from William Driver, a Massachusetts-born resident of Nashville who hid his homemade flag from Confederate ...

This Is the Story of Our Beloved Old Glory - YouTube

When his home was searched by Confederate soldiers, Navy Captain William Driver, a passionate Unionist, hid his beloved "Old Glory" inside ...

The Story Of "Old Glory" - ChamberofCommerce.org

Though he was sixty years old, the Captain climbed up to the tower to replace the smaller banner with his beloved flag. The Sixth Ohio Regiment cheered and ...

Old Glory - CivilWar@Smithsonian

When the Civil War began and Tennessee, where Driver had moved, seceded from the Union, the flag survived, sewn inside a quilt. It was unfurled when Union ...