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United States Civil War
FIFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
While one of the Michigan regiments was being raised—I think it was the 5th—it was understood that Captain Meade, U. S. Engineer Corps, and then on duty at Detroit (afterwards major general), was to be its colonel. I had promised this to his friend, Captain Potter, with whom most of the consultation was had. I think General Meade understood this perfectly, and would have been commissioned but for his being appointed a brigadier by the President. "
Previous to the leaving of the 5th for the front, there was given to it at Fort Wayne, by Messrs F. Buhl, Newland & Co. of Detroit, a National color of fine silk and superb manufacture.
Civil War
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