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Michigan Flags of the Civil War
Flags of Michigan
In our own country, the love and reverence for the old flag were powerful incitements to patriotic action in the recent war, often leading those in the field to follow it to deeds of heroism not surpassed in any other war, while it aided much in strengthening and uniting the people in the determination to maintain the unity of the republic.
It is claimed as being well settled, that so far as recorded, the earliest flags planted on North American shores were those of England, and that with changing devices, various symbols and mottoes, they were continued through the provincial and colonial times, in the Anglo Saxon settlements, until the
raising of the great union banner at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 2d, 1776. This contained the thirteen stripes of alternate red and white, as an emblem of the union of the thirteen colonies against the oppressive acts of Great Britain, but still retaining the blended crosses of Saint George and Saint Andrew.
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