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Michigan Flags of the Civil War
Flags of Michigan
Although very young, a mere child, really, he had learned the difference in the appearance of Union and Confederate soldiers, having seen both, and he had also taken notice of the colors that composed the flags of both. One morning, discovering a beautiful rainbow arching the heavens, suspended as it were from the sky, he hurried to his mother exclaiming, with great earnestness, pointing upwards with both his little hands, "Mother! mother! Oh, mother! God is a Union man. " His mother questioned him as to his reasons for thinking so. He replied, while a glow of delight flashed on his countenance, his little eyes beaming with brightness, "I know He is a Union man, mother, for I have seen His flag in heaven, and it is red, white, and blue. "
Civil War
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