And in 2013, the museum brought the manuscript to Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, Md., where Key is buried. In 2011 it was taken by armored vehicle, with a police escort, to the state’s capital in Annapolis and to Fort McHenry. Key’s manuscript has traveled only slightly more often since being purchased for the historical society in the 1950s. Armistead was the commander of Fort McHenry and the man who commissioned the banner with 15 stripes and 15 stars, representing the number of states in the Union at the time.Įxcept for a period during World War II, when it was housed in Virginia for safekeeping, the flag hasn’t traveled outside of Washington since coming to the Smithsonian.
That the havoc of war and the battles confusion.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore. After a century of general use, the four-stanza song was officially adopted as the national anthem by an act of Congress in 1931. Oer the land of the free and the home of the brave Flag draped from the roof of the Pentagon. The Star-Spangled Banner, national anthem of the United States, with music adapted from the anthem of a singing club and words by Francis Scott Key. The flag has been at Smithsonian for more than a century after being given to the institution by the family of Maj. Now it catches the gleam of the mornings first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream: Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave. And, second, Key wrote, “Oh say can you see through the dawn’s early light,” but crossed out “through” and wrote “by.”Īmericans may be more familiar with the flag, which gets millions of visitors a year at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. First, Key’s poem is actually four stanzas, though the first stanza is the only one that’s traditionally sung. Key’s original manuscript, written with quill and ink, has two surprises for viewers who know the song.
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