Excerpt from The Young Nation: Selections From the Youth's Companion
Of proportion to its length unless the stripes were narrowed, and this would have made it hard to see them at a distance.
NO act has since been passed by Congress altering this feature Of the flag, and the standard is the same as originally adopted, except as to the number of stars in its union.
Although the design for the United States flag was so purely American, the material for it still came from England. NO American bunting was found sufficiently strong and durable in color to stand wind and weather until after our Civil War, when Gen. B. F. Butler requested the Secretary Of the Navy to test the bunting made in Lowell, Massachusetts.
A test was accordingly ordered, and this bunting was found superior to foreign fabric in quality and color endurance. The Lowell company presented a magnificent flag to the Senate Of the United States, and this, the first United States flag made Of United States bunting, was hoisted over the Senate Chamber at Washington on February 24, 1866. Ever since then the bunting for the Stars and Stripes has been made in America.
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