Francis Scott Key born, 1780
August Tenth
To defend your birthright and mine, which is more precious than domestic ease, or property, or life, I exchange, with proud satisfaction, a term of six years in the Senate of the United States for the musket of a soldier.
John C. Breckinridge
General Lyon killed and his army defeated by General Ben. McCulloch at Wilson Creek, Mo., 1861
August Eleventh
Against the night, a champion bright,
The glow-worm, lifts a spear of light;
And, undismayed, the slenderest shade
Against the noonday bares a blade.
John B. Tabb
(Heroes)
August Twelfth