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Flags of the Civil War
Presentation of Colors
On the Fourth of July, 1866, those colors were formally presented in Detroit, through the Governor, to the State, and were deposited in its archives to be sacredly kept and carefully preserved.
The setting apart of the National birthday for the purpose was most appropriate. Its hallowed memories reminded the people of the gallant struggle of their forefathers in establishing the Government, in the maintenance of which so many present had followed their flags to glorious victory.
The congregated emblems of National and State prowess, and of regimental bravery and fraternal associations there presented, revived in the mind of every soldier recollections of great and gallant deeds, of days and nights fraught with anxiety, doubt, danger, and death, of sacrifices to patriotism, of hair-breadth escapes, of attacks, of repulses, of sad defeats, of glorious victories, of
Michigan colors
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