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Civil War American
THIRTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
While the 13th was being recruited at Kalamazoo, the citizens, desirous of providing it with a set of colors, ordered them from New York through the Hon. G. H, Gale, but before their arrival the regiment had left for the front in. Kentucky. When they were received they were at once sent forward and presented "sans ceremonie, " at Nashville, Tennessee, on dress parade, February 12th, 1862. They were of elegant silk and fine workmanship, with the inscription in gold letters, "Presented by the citizens of Kalamazoo
to the Thirteenth Michigan Infantry.
U. S. Civil War
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