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Michigan Flags of the Civil War
Flags of Michigan
It is also claimed that Mrs. John Ross was the first maker and partial designer of the Stars and Stripes; that the house where the flag was made is still standing, being 239 Arch street, Philadelphia; that she was visited by General Washington and a committee of Congress in June, 1776, who engaged her to make the flag, from a rough drawing, and which, according to her suggestions, was re-drawn by General Washington in pencil, changing the formation of the stars from six-cornered to five-cornered.
It is said that a standard was presented to the Philadelphia troop of Light Horse, by Captain Abraham Markoe, in 1774-5, and is still displayed at their anniversary dinners, and which is generally believed to be the first instance of the, thirteen stripes being used upon an American flag.
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