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Michigan Flags of the Civil War
Flags of Michigan
Soon after this, however, they were erased and a canopy of stars on a blue field substituted, thereby adding beauty and meaning to the fact that the last semblance of loyalty to England was to be renounced, an entire separation of the colonies from Great Britain effected, and the advent of a new power, which had by declaration a short time previous, proclaimed a free and. independent state, to be known as the United States of America.
Symbolic ensigns, standards, and banners enter into the heraldry of all nations, but differ much in design; some have birds and fishes, some beasts, and others trees, while many have various other devices, and each with some
adopted significance.
Civil War
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