The famous name of Old Glory was originated in 1831 by Captain William Driver, a shipmaster from Salem, Massachusetts. As he was leaving on one of his many voyages aboard his ship the Charles Doggett, his friends presented him with a beautiful flag of twenty four stars. As the banner opened and waved in the ocean breeze for the first time, he cried out “Old Glory!” By the time the Civil War broke out, just about everybody in and around Nashville, where he had retired in 1837, recognized Captain Driver’s banner as “Old Glory.” William Driver’s grave rests in the old Nashville City Cemetery and is one of only three places authorized by an act of Congress where the Flag of the United States can be flown 24 hours a day – quite an honor.
Although schools around the country had already been celebrating the American flags birthday on June 14 every year for over 30 years, it wasnt until August 3, 1949, that President Truman signed an Act of Congress designating June 14th as National Flag Day.
During the War of 1812, a young lawyer and amateur poet named Francis Scott Key wrote what later became the United States National Anthem....
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