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Michigan Flags of the Civil War
Flags of Michigan
After signing the Declaration of Independence, on the 4th of July, 1776, The Continental Congress, before adjourning on that day, appointed Dr. Franklin, Mr. Adams, and Mr. Jefferson as a committee to prepare a device for a seal of the United States. On August the 20th, following, they made a report, which was laid on the table.
In the Congress of the Confederation, on the 20th of June, 1782, the following device for an armorial achievement, and reverse of the great seal for the United States in Congress assembled, " was adopted.
Arms: "Paleways of thirteen pieces, argent and gules; a chief, azure; the escutcheon on the breast of the American eagle displayed proper, holding in his dexter talon an olive branch, and in his sinister a bundle of thirteen arrows, all proper, and in his beak a scroll inscribed with this motto: 'Epluribus unum. ' "
Civil War
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