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Michigan in the Civil War Sanitary Operations
Happily, the war is ended. The grand armies that fought its battles have returned to their families and to peaceful pursuits. Too many, alas, have found their last resting place far from kindred and from home. They found bloody graves in a hostile land. Their memories live in the hearts of a grateful people, saved by their devotion and valor.
All honor to the dead hero; his wife and children demand our care, and must not be forgotten or neglected. "
In September, 1866, the association discontinued its operations, and among its. last acts of kind consideration for the soldier, transmitted to the trustees of Harper hospital, at Detroit, $1, 000, to be by them used in the care and maintenance of sack disabled Michigan soldiers as should, from time to time, be-come its inmates.
American civil war
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