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Michigan Address of Col. Isaac D. Toll
Your achievements were not the work of a day; centuries ago was the foundation laid, and step by step from Runnymede to the downfall of the Stuarts, and the abnegation of divine right, the mission of the Mayflower, Calvert, Lexington, Lake Erie, New Orleans, here at homo on the Detroit, the river Raisin—the brilliant daring of DeQuindre at Monguagon, supported by his riflemen of sterling French stock, driving all Wore him—all culminating in your record, and, what was the deserved eulogium of a most able military critic, that Michigan furnished in the great civil war the "best cavalry and the tallest infantry in the world Well may that eulogy have been pronounced, when we speak the name-of Custer!
You have seen the fruit borne by the encouragement of independent military companies, forming not the nucleus, but mostly the body of your regiment of volunteers.
Mexican War
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