The United States flag is familiar to nearly all as "Old Glory".
Many fewer know why. The name was coined by Captain William Driver
(1803-1886) in 1831. On his birthday some friends presented him
with a beautiful twenty-four star flag. It is reputed that as the
banner unfurled for the first time in the ocean breeze, he
exclaimed "Old Glory!"
Captain Driver retired to Nashville Tennessee six years later in
1837 and took his beloved flag with him. He and his treasured flag
were well known in and around Nashville as on patriotic days he
flew Old Glory proudly at his home. When Tennessee seceded from the
Union Captain Driver feared that his flag might be destroyed so he
stitched it inside a bedcover. Old Glory remained in hiding until
Union forces captured Nashville on February 25th 1862. At that time
the flag was removed from its hiding place and taken to the State
Capitol building where it was flown on the capitol flagpole.
Before his death Captain Driver gave his beloved old flag to his
daughter Mary Jane. The flag remained in the Driver family until
1922 when it given to the Smithsonian Institute. Captain William
Driver is buried in Nashville Tennessee and his gravesite is one of
three places where Congress has authorized the flying of the Flag
of the United States 24 hours a day.
You are looking for a micro container near a small monument.
Please be respectful and please, if you would, take a moment to
read the plaque. As always, be discreet and use proper stealth as
there will be muggle traffic passing by. Also, and this should go
without saying, please replace the cache as well or better than you
found it.