Abraham Lincoln actually said...

Second. That the flag, when raised, be saluted by one hundred guns from Fort Sumter and by a national salute from every fort and rebel battery that fired upon Fort Sumter.

Context

Executive Order—Ordering the Raising of the Flag and Other Commemorations at Fort Sumter

03/26/1865

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