by Steve Vogel
After years of eschewing Weybright, Spangled Banner, 232.
“It is beautiful!” Smith, The First Forty Years, 293–94.
Key became a confidant Eugene L. Didier, “Francis Scott Key as a Lawyer,” Green Bag, May 1904; Delaplaine, Francis Scott Key, 277.
When Jackson’s friend Ibid., 328–31.
Jackson sent the lawyer Weybright, Spangled Banner, 246–51.
Key had a hand Ibid., 237, 267; Jefferson Morley, Snow-Storm in August, 208–209.
“you will find yourself” Delaplaine, Francis Scott Key, 294.
More than two decades Sandra F. VanBurkleo and Bonnie Speck, “Taney, Roger Brooke,” American National Biography Online, http://www.anb.org/articles/11/11–00834.html.
The post as federal Weybright, Spangled Banner, 268; Didier, “Francis Scott Key as a Lawyer.”
Key “did not lose” Delaplaine, Francis Scott Key, 399.
The sorriest episode Jefferson Morley, “The Snow Riot,” WP Magazine, Feb. 6, 2005.
Key had meanwhile Ibid.; Weybright, Spangled Banner, 268.
“deep malignity” Morley, Snow-Storm in August, 222.
Key’s nineeen-year-old son Ibid., 227–31.
Less than a year later Delaplaine, Francis Scott Key, 428–29; Weybright, Spangled Banner, 226.
He retired after two Ibid., 271–73.
Key had emancipated Ibid., 188; Delaplaine, Francis Scott Key, 430, 447–49.
By then the lyrics Taylor et al., The Star-Spangled Banner, 51.
“Where else, except” Weybright, Spangled Banner, 188.
In early January 1843 Ibid., 286–87.
“Lizzie, I have a feeling” McHenry Howard to K. Mackenzie Brevitt, May 8, 1912, Key vertical file, HSF.
Key asked someone Delaplaine, Francis Scott Key, 476–77.
just a few miles Key-Smith, Francis Scott Key, 96.
“Francis S. Key, the author” Taylor et al., The Star-Spangled Banner, 39–40.
Key was buried Delaplaine, Francis Scott Key, 478; author visit to Mount Olivet, Frederick/Montgomery Star-Spangled 200 Conference, Dec. 14, 2011.
On October 8, 1824 Taylor et al., The Star-Spangled Banner, 83.
It was the last Ibid., 81; Sheads, Guardian of the Star-Spangled Banner, 35; “History of the Star-Spangled Banner,” National Museum of American History, November 2008.
The family loaned Taylor et al., The Star-Spangled Banner, 84.
When Louisa Armistead died Ibid., 86–87.
In the terrible conflict Sheads, Guardian of the Star-Spangled Banner, 29, 38.
“As I stood” Molotsky, The Flag, the Poet, and the Song, 147.
“[W]ith me it has remained” Taylor et al., The Star-Spangled Banner, 86, 89.
The flag had remained Ibid., 4.
By the time Eben Appleton Ibid., 98–101; Sheads, Guardian of the Star-Spangled Banner, 39.
Gravely insulted Taylor et al., The Star-Spangled Banner 103, 107–108.
The disintegrating flag Ibid., 5, 89, 109–10.
The flag remained there Ibid., 112–14.
In 1964, the flag Ibid., 127–28.
But the flag suffered Ibid., 135–36, 140, 146–48.
The results were spectacular Ibid., 148–54.
The largest hole Ibid., 71.
The flag was far too fragile Ibid., 155.
The conservation, expected Jacqueline Trescott, “Museum Is Going Dark to Add Light,” WP, April 13, 2006; Jacqueline Trescott, “America’s Attic Is Ready for Its Public,” WP, Nov. 20, 2008; Taylor et al., The Star-Spangled Banner, 162–63.
The banner hovers Author tour with James Gardner, senior scholar, National Museum of American History, June 8, 2011.
The transformation Taylor et al., The Star-Spangled Banner, 2.
The rise of “The Star-Spangled” Ibid., 46–47; Lichtenwanger, “The Music of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’ ”
But with the war Ibid.; Sonneck, The Star Spangled Banner, 83; Taylor et al., The Star-Spangled Banner, 52.
Beginning in 1889 Ibid., 53.
Key hated the war Delaplaine, Francis Scott Key, 100; Sonneck, The Star Spangled Banner, 12; Meyer, Paradoxes of Fame, 56.
“barroom ballad” “Hats On,” Time, Aug. 17, 1925; Norman Gelb, “Reluctant Patriot,” Smithsonian, September 2004.
Nonetheless, Representative Edward T. Folliard, “Capital Echoes,” WP, March 8, 1931; “Star-Spangled Banner Is Now Official Anthem,” WP, March 5, 1931.
Critics have never Lichtenwanger, “The Music of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’ ”
The song “bristles” Paul Hume, “Blood, Thunder and a Recycled National Anthem,” WP, July 3, 1977.
The song’s lyrics are “empty” Michael Kinsley, “Oh, Say Can You Sing It?,” WP, June 12, 2009.
Among those “The Opinion of John Philip Sousa Concerning ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ as the National Anthem of the United States, Written for the Home of Chief Justice Taney, Frederick, Maryland,” n.d., F. S. Key vertical file, HSF.
“Nations will seldom” Hollister Noble, “Many National Anthems of Doubtful Standing,” New York Times, March 9, 1930.
UNITED STATES CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, JULY 4, 1831
The American flag waved Richmond Enquirer, July 8, 1831; Delaplaine, Francis Scott Key, 300; “History of the U.S. Capitol Building,” AOC.
All shops “From the National Intelligencer of Wednesday,” Philadelphia National Gazette, July 9, 1831; Delaplaine, Francis Scott Key, 300.
Key took the podium Richmond Enquirer, July 8, 1831.
Fifty-five years had passed Delaplaine, Francis Scott Key, 301; Hockensmith, “James Monroe.”
“We are here, in the rich” Delaplaine, Francis Scott Key, 301.
Key spoke loudly Richmond Enquirer, July 8, 1831; Delaplaine, Francis Scott Key, 299, 309.
The Constitution Ibid., 309.
We who inherit freedom Weybright, Spangled Banner, 239.
“My countrymen” Muller, Darkest Day, 212; Delaplaine, Francis Scott Key, 311–12.
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