About That "Star-Spangled Benner"-- Part 3: After the Battle

Francis Scott Key's "Defence of Fort McHenry" was published in newspapers and then set to music.  The "Star-Spangled Banner" was recognized as the National Anthem in 1931.

Over the years, souvenir seekers snipped away bits of the flag.  This is how the museum in Fayetteville came to get the snippet they have on loan.

The main part of the flag is now in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C..

The "You're a Grand Old Flag" exhibit opened May 22 and will continue until July 8.

The exhibit also contains a 48-star flag (the one used in World War II) and a 40-star one.  But the scrap of the Fort McHenry flag is drawing the most attraction.

--Brock-Perry

About That Famous "Star-Spangled" Flag-- Part 1: And a Quiz on Your U.S. Flag Knowledge

From the June 13, 2018, Fayetteville (NC) Observer "This scrap of flay inspired the 'Star-Spangled Banner'"

The Airborne & Special Operations Museum at Fort Bragg, located by Fayetteville has a very special fragment of a flag in its "Grand Old Flag" exhibit. It is a small scrap of the famous flag that flew over Fort McHenry and inspired Francis Scott Key to write what today is the "Star-Spangled Banner," our National Anthem.

This article also included a quiz "How much do you know about the American flag?"  It consists of 12 questions, some easy, others really hard.  I got nine correct, even though I had lucky guesses on some of them.  They will even rate you.  I rated "Real Patriot."  Not to brag, BUT....

Type in the name of the article and pick the one by the Fayetteville Observer in your search.

--Brock-Perry

NC Veterans Get Grave Markers-- Part 2

John Eccles and John Huske served in the Light Infantry Company.

All four were deployed at Wilmington to protect the port from British naval attack.

General Thomas Davis was the ranking military officer at Fayetteville, is the 5th great grandfather of the Reverend Robert Alves, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, who spoke at the grave. He was a prosperous businessman and lawyer who served two terms in the House of Commons in 1803 and is buried under a magnolia tree.

Lt. John Eccles was a Fayetteville businessman who donated land for what became a part of the Cross Creek Cemetery and is also buried under a magnolia tree at the corner of North Cool Spring and Grove streets.

--Brock-Perry

NC Veterans Get Grave Markers-- Part 1

From the September 22, 2012, Fayetteville (NC) Observer "Soldiers from War of 1812 honored with grave markers" by Nancy McClearly.

Forty people gathered at Fayetteville's Cross Creek Cemetery No. 1, including members of the Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry (I have written about them in my Saw the Elephant Civil War and Cooter's History Thing blogs) and the DAR. They were honoring four War of 1812 North Carolina veterans with gravestones and a ceremony.

Each of the four men honored with a small brass marker shaped like a star with "War of 1812" engraved in it. These four men represented a cross-section of the soldiers who served in the war.

They were General Thomas Davis of the NC State Militia, Militiaman John Powres, Lt. John Eccles and Sgt. John Huske II.

An Overdue Honor. --Brock-Perry

Ceremony to Commemorate War of 1812 Veterans in Fayetteville, NC

From the Sept. 15th Fayetteville (NC) Observer.

Bronze markers will be unveiled September 22nd at Cross Creek Cemetery No. 1 in downtown Fayetteville.  They will be placed at the graves of four War of 1812 veterans including General Thomas Davis, Lt. John Eccles, Sgt. John Huske II and a private.

Afterwards, there will be a tour of the Fayetteville Transportation Museum's War of 1812 exhibit.

I was able to find out that Davis was a brigadier general of militia.

Remembering the War of 1812.  --Brock-Perry