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Michigan Flags of the Civil War
Flags of Michigan
After a number of additional States had been admitted to the Union, a resolution was offered in Congress appointing a committee to enquire into the expediency of altering the flag of the United States. This committee reported a bill on the 2d of January, 1817, but it was not acted upon. On the reassembling of Congress, on the 16th of December following, the resolution was renewed, and on the 6th of January, 1818, a committee reported the following law, which was enacted and approved April 4th, 1818:
"AN ACT to establish the Flag of the United States.
"Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., that from and after the 4th day of July next, the flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; that the union have twenty stars, white, on a blue field. "Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, that on the admission of every new State into.
Civil War
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