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ardor in the cause, or of a wanton forgetfulness of the worth or valor which they were intended to perpetuate; while the humble stone with the tender and loving inscription of the widowed mother to her departed child is completed and stands intact, the consummation of a fixed and hallowed purpose.
With a grateful appreciation of the services and sacrifices of her eons who gave up their lives, the dearest boon to man, and of those who risked them in the same glorious cause, Michigan, early in the war, determined to perpetuate their memories and heroic deeds, by the erection of a monument chiseled from the white marble or the beautiful granite of America, elaborately and appropriately finished with bronze or marble figures.
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