Our Flag Was Still There: The Star Spangled Banner that Survived the British and 200 Years-and the Armistead Family who Saved it (Tom McMillan - WH) Teddy Roosevelt planter and politician Samuel Hoey

planter and politician Samuel Hoey Walkup (1818-1876) led the 48th North Carolina Infantry in the Civil War

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Our Flag Was Still There: The Star Spangled Banner that Survived the British and 200 Years-and the Armistead Family who Saved it (Tom McMillan - WH) Teddy Roosevelt planter and politician Samuel Hoeyby Tom McMillan Our Flag Was Still There details the improbable two hundred year journey of the original Star Spangled Bannerfrom Fort McHenry in 1814, when Francis Scott Key first saw it, to the Smithsonian in 2023and the enduring family who defended, kept, hid, and ultimately donated the most famous flag in American history. Francis Scott Key saw the original Star Spangled Banner flying over Baltimores Fort McHenry on September 14, 1814, following a