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Michigan Flags of the Civil War
Flags of Michigan
the Union, one star be added to the union of the flag; and that such addition shall take effect on the 4th of July next succeeding such admission. "
The flag, it is claimed, was designed by Captain S. C. Reid, for which he received a vote of thanks from Congress in 1859. He had been the commander of a privateer, known as the "General Armstrong, " and had defended her with much gallantry while being attacked by a British squadron of boats in Fayal Roads. He died in 1861, a Master in the United States Navy.
The first flag is said to have been made at New York, by Mrs. S. C. Reed, under the direction of her husband, and to have been hoisted on the House of Representatives on the 13th of April, 1818, although the act establishing it was not to take effect until the 4th of July following.
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