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Michigan Flags of the Civil War
Flags of Michigan
The " stars and stripes" were chosen for America. Opinions vary as to their meaning. Some say that the red is emblematic of the blood shed for ouf country by the forefathers, that the blue tells of the heavens, and their protection, while the stars represent the several States as one nationality.
The designating stripes on the coats of the Continental soldiers are said to have furnished the idea of the stripes, and some have supposed that they were borrowed from the Dutch, while others have believed that both stars and stripes were suggested by the arms of Washington, which singularly contain
both.
The designer of this union of stars is unfortunately unknown, but the eloquent and chaste significance applied to them is sublime.
Civil War
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