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Civil War American National Cemeteries
In truth, several of the States, fairly outdone by her, solicited the privilege of adding to what seemed comparatively their meagre contribution.
Our State fairly owes an acknowledgement to your efficient Adjutant General for a large share of merit in the preparation of her creditable deposit. Very fitly may the following initial list of the articles thus deposited be appended, lor the inspection of the citizens of a State noted for her lively interest in all the hallowed places and associations of the Nation's noble dead:
Silver medallion, with State coat of arms on one side, and on the other the number of soldiers furnished by Michigan for the war (91, 193), with this
inscription: " In honor of the 90, 048 Michigan soldiers who aided in perpetuating American Liberty, 1861-1865.
National Cemeteries of the Civil War
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