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Keywords: Prisoners and prisons
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Item 19253
Title: Andersonville Prison Hospital and Stockade, Felix de la Baume, ca. 1864
Contributed by: Freeport Historical Society
Date: circa 1864
Location: Andersonville
Media: paper
Item 13568
Title: Prisoners of War in the farm field, Houlton, 1945
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Date: 1945
Location: Houlton
Media: monochrome photograph
Item 13564
Title: Prisoners of War, Houlton, 1945
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Date: circa 1945
Location: Houlton
Media: monochrome photograph
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Mainers have been held prisoners in conflicts fought on Maine and American soil and in those fought overseas. In addition, enemy prisoners from several wars have been brought to Maine soil for the duration of the war.
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Anglo-Americans in northern New England sometimes interpreted their own anxieties about the Wilderness, their faith, and their conflicts with Native Americans as signs that the Devil and his handmaidens, witches, were active in their midst.
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War Through the Eyes of a Young Sailor
Eager to deal with the "Sesech" [Secessionists], young deepwater sailor John Monroe Dillingham of Freeport enlisted in the U.S. Navy as soon as he returned from a long voyage in 1862. His letters and those of his family offer first-hand insight into how one individual viewed the war.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea
The history of a town on the northern bank of the St. George River, as told by representatives from Thomaston Historical Society, Thomaston Public Library, Montpelier: the General Henry Knox Museum, and students from Georges Valley High School. Architecture, General Knox, the Civil War, the Great Depression, and the state prison are some of the topics covered.