The victorious union, 150 years later

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Reenacters marched to the State House on Tuesday in a “Return of the Flags’’ ceremony that matched the Dec. 22, 1865, commemoration of the end of the Civil War. On that date, Union General Darius N. Couch presented Governor John A. Andrew the battle flags of state regiments for posterity. B1.