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War of 1812 Michigan. pg.78
the grave of the deceased, around which was a proper paling, surrounded with a picketing to prevent the intrusion of persons disposed to insult the sacred repository of the dead. This object had been preserved inviolate for more than six years; until your army advanced to that place last September, when it was violated in the most wanton manner by destroying the paling and pickets that surrounded it, defacing and otherwise mutilating and injuring the stone itself. How far such treatment
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