The History of the First United States Flag / and the Patriotism of Betsy Ross, the Immortal Heroine That Originated the First Flag of the Union

by J. Franklin Reigart

PATRIOTIC SONGS.

THE following are copies of some of the printed Songs and Appeals that Betsy Ross circulated and distributed with her own hands in the streets of Philadelphia, and from the front door of her Flag store and depot, to the troops on their way to Washington’s camp:

THE GALLANT VOLUNTEER OF 1776.

“Come on, my hearts of temper’d steel,

And leave your girls and farms,

Your sports, and plays, and holidays,

And hark, away to arms!

And to conquest we will go! will go! will go!