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Flags of the Civil War
Presentation of Colors
provided by a beneficent Government, and now sleep in their windowless palaces of rest, where they will lie in peace until the last reveille; but some of them yet lie where their comrades left them, by the way-sides, on the sunny brows of many hills, in the dense forests, in the valleys, and under the orange and palm trees, on the banks of rivers, under the deep, dark waters, and on the sea beach, where the restless waves forever chant their requiem. But they lie under the flag they defended and made stainless, and in the land they saved and made free.
" Thank God! there beams o'er land and sea, Our blazing star of victory; And everywhere, from main to main, The ' Old Flag' nice and rules again. "
Michigan colors
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