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Civil War American National Cemeteries
Requisitions made upon the State were paid to the Treasurer of the Board, respectively, as follows:
May 23d, 1864... .............. $630 00
November 29th 1864
Novembe'r 29thV1864. "(531 82,
May30th, 1865................. 1, 260 00
being the full amount of her apportionment.
September 23d, 1865
April 24th 1866
$5, 046 30
the soil of Michigan to
I would recomend that there be transplanted from the soil of Michigan to the cemetary a white pine tree as a living perennial emblem of the state. As comprehensively and briefly as the subject would admit. I have endeaveavored
to sketch the history of this worthy trust, assumed by States, who felt it there special charge thus to consecrate the
memory of heroic dead, fallen in behalf of all the states of the Republic. Were I to close here, violence would
be done to the sad and painful associations which forcibly remind all that death is not confined to battle fields, however memorable. In the progress of these recounted labors, he who stood as the civil and military chief of the nation, battling for its life, and through the weary, disheartening years of struggle, never failing, but with courageous heart and confiding purpose, guiding that nation to victory, has fallen a victim to the same treacherous foe that crimsoned a decisive battle field with the blood of heroic defenders.
National Cemeteries of the Civil War
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