Off For The Encampment
On Monday afternoon, about fifty members of Weloh post, G. A. R., left by the T. & A. A. railroad to attend the natiocal encampment at Columbus. Commander W. H. Jackson was in command of the post. DelegatioDS from Chelsea and Dexter, whose posta did not go to the encampment, accompanied Welch post. The post carried with them tlieir handsome new banner which arriyed Monday morning. The banner is of silk, eix by six and a half feet, and représenla the Union flag with the Gr. A. R. emblem on a blue field aurrounded by stars. It coat $80, and is as handsome a flag as wilt be seen there. The boys were full of life and long before the train started were deeply interested in old reminigcences of the war. The Ypeilanti post, about 25 stron?, came up to Ann Arbor in the morning and left for the encampment by the special G. A. R. train, about an hour before the regular.
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