Excerpt from History of Alabama: Adapted to the Use of Schools and for General ReadingThe 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 ¿ag over every school-house, in accordance with the sugges tion of a joint resolution of the Alabama Legislature in 1898.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.