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Michigan in the Civil War Sanitary Operations
The ladies had determined that all obstacles should be over-
come, and their efforts were crowned with success.
Contributions in money, merchandise, produce, animals, implements, and works of art, were furnished with a good degree of liberality from various portions of this State, and in a few instances from beyond the limits of Michigan. Words of encouragement, with gifts of money or articles for sale, came alike from the rich and the poor. In not a few instances the widowed mother, whose only son had gone down in the storm of battle in the Army of the Potomac, or the Army of the West, sent forward her humble contribution, with an invocation that God would bless the soldier who stood ready to yield his life in defense of that Government which had given him protection from infancy to manhood.
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