. Michigan historical collections . o, and how he became personally responsible for their safety, hisidea being that the veterans be allowed to march once more under theflags that they had followed on the fields of carnage and blood, the flagsthey loved so well and under whose gleaming folds they had offered alland dared all that the Nation might live. The Military Board grantedthe request of Colonel Foote, but it will be the last time the flags willever leave the Capitol as they are sealed in cases in the rotunda everto remain to the honor of Michigan, and to the patriotism and braveryof her
. Michigan historical collections . o, and how he became personally responsible for their safety, hisidea being that the veterans be allowed to march once more under theflags that they had followed on the fields of carnage and blood, the flagsthey loved so well and under whose gleaming folds they had offered alland dared all that the Nation might live. The Military Board grantedthe request of Colonel Foote, but it will be the last time the flags willever leave the Capitol as they are sealed in cases in the rotunda everto remain to the honor of Michigan, and to the patriotism and braveryof her sons. That Colonel Foote was loved by the soldiers and by the citizens ofhis home city is attested by the many heartfelt tributes to his memory. To know Cblonel Foote was to love him, his strong, sturdy character,his manly qualities and love of truth and justice attracted men to was a typical American gentleman, a chivalrous and brave soldier,an upright, honorable citizen, and in his death Michigan has sustaineda great MUS. I). ( MEMOIR MRS. THOMAS D. GILBERT 693 MRS. THOMAS D. GILBERT BY CLAUDE R. BUCHANAN^ Mary Angelina Bingham (Angie Bingham Gilbert) was born March21, 1830, and died at Grand Rapids, Michigan, November 8, 1910., What an eighty years this has been, everything for Michigan, prettymuch everything for the United States and is there any other eightyyears to compare with it in the worlds histoiy which has brought intoexistence modern England, the Republic of France, the German Empire,the mighty changes for Slav and Oreintal, the opening of Africa and thegeneral modernizing, civilizing, liberalizing and enfranchising of ourpresent day world, with business, commerce, transportation and com-munication practically revolutionized ? She was born at Sault Ste. Marie, in the house then dovm near theriver in which General Cass signed the treaty with the Indians. Herfather, the Rev. Abel Bingham, was for a quarter of a century a mis-sionary to
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