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“Old Glory”
The original “Old Glory” was a world traveler, a. refugee from the Confederacy, and a souvenir of the Smithsonian Institution.
A young sea captain named William Driver introduced the nickname in 1831, when he was given command of the brig “Charles Doggett.” A group of citizens of Salem, Mass., presented him with a U. S. flag and he hailed it as ‘‘Old Glory.”
Driver traveled twice around the world with the flag. When he retired in 1837, he took the flag with him. to Nashville, Tenn., where the name “Old Glory” spread.
During the Civil War^ the flag was sewed inside a bed quilt to hide it from Confederate troops. When Union soldiers took Nashville in 1867, Driver brought out the flag and it was raised over the state Capitol.
In 1922, “Old Glory” retired to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C.
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