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American Civil War
SIXTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
This regiment, in command of Colonel Stockton, left for the field in Virginia on the 16th of September, 1861, with an aggregate of 761 officers and men on its rolls.
Before it left, the ladies of Detroit, through Mrs. Charles H. Dunks, gave the 16th, while in Camp Backus, a superb flag of the finest blue silk, inscribed thereon, "Stockton's Independent Regiment, " with the State arms on one side, and on the reverse the arms of the United States, finely executed, on which was the motto, Stand by the Union. "
Michigan in the Civil War
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