History of Alabama - Adapted to the Use of Schools and for General Reading #255791

The children should also be taught to admire the Union soldiers for their brave and patriotic fight in saving the Union. A spiritof national patriotism should be inculcated by the revival of tl.e Fourth of July celebrations of ante bellum days and by erecting a national flag over every school-house, in accordance with the sugges tion of a joint resolution of the Alabama Legislature in 1898.