“The Fourth of July will remind an American of his home wherever he may be or however far he may be separated from it." “Early in the morning we fired several rounds, and made as much noise as possible in honor of the day of Independence. We started in the morning and soon passed an encampment where we had the pleasure of beholding the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ floating in the cool breeze,” noted Kimball Webster, a 21-year-old New Hampshire farmer who had begun his overland journey to
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