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Flags of the Civil War
Presentation of Colors
Their stories will be as household words; and the minds of those who come after us will dwell upon the thoughts of manly endeavor, of staunch, endurance, of illustrious achievements, which their silent eloquence will ever suggest. They will ever typify the grand results accomplished by the loyal men of the Nation in this great rebellion; and should the flame of patriotism ever wane upon our altar-stone, the halo from these mementoes will kindle again the ancient fire that electrified the world.
"Let us, then, tenderly deposit them, as sacred relics, in the archives of cur State, there to stand forever, her proudest possession—a revered incentive to liberty and patriotism, and a constant rebuke and terror to oppression and
treason. "
Michigan colors
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