Excerpt from Uncle Sam's Trails and Triumphs: With Old Glory A change was desired and from a pencil sketch pre pared by Gen. Washington the continental congress on June 14, 1777, adopted a resolution that the flag of the thirteen states shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, and the Union be thirteen stars in a blue field. Thus originated a new Nation's new flag, different from all others in glorious beauty and construction. It has a grand historical existence of a little over a cen tury. It has done wonders in the enlightenment of a people's liberty. It isa flag that means more than all others. The blue field is the accepted color of fidelity and liberty, and placed in that part of the flag that is significant of the chosen emblem of a Nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.