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Flags of the Civil War
Presentation of Colors
When the war had ended, the regiments returning delivered to the State their Colors, not one dishonored, neither blot nor stain on their escutcheon, but all distinguished and glorious, bearing record of many battles.
A prophecy was generally advanced early in the war, and even up to its close, that idleness, debauchery, and crime would characterize the release from military restraint, and the return to the State of so many men who had been exposed to a service, judging from the results in other armies, likely to engender irregular, improvident, and dissolute habits, leading to a lawless course of conduct, tending to the most deplorable consequences.
Alas for the prophets! their sayings were but the idle babblings of the most distrustful of humanity. By over fifteen years of experience since their return their theory has been completely refuted by a practice of honesty, virtue and thrift, most commendable, comparing favorably with our citizens generally, while many of them have filled the highest places in the administration of the State, and in the ordinary avocations in life.
Michigan colors
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