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Keywords: 18th Regiment
Historical Items Showing 3 of 9 View All
Item 16119
18th Regiment recruiting poster, Aroostook County, 1862
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Date: 1862
Media: paper
Item 33711
W. C. Clark of the 18th Maine, 1861
Contributed by: Lincoln Historical Society
Date: 1861
Location: Lincoln; Hampden; Brewer
Media: Photographic print
Item 82152
James Parker, Artificer, First Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment, ca. 1863
Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Date: circa 1863
Media: Photographic print
Exhibits Showing 3 of 8 View All
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The War was not going well for the Union and in the summer of 1862, when President Lincoln called for an additional 300,000 troops, it was not a surprise to see so many men enlist in an attempt to bring proper leadership into the Army.
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For the Union: Civil War Deaths
More than 9,000 Maine soldiers and sailors died during the Civil War while serving with Union forces. This exhibit tells the stories of a few of those men.
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Imagery on letterhead soldiers used, on soldiers' memorials produced after the war, and on many other items captured the themes of the American Civil War: union, liberty, and freedom.
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John Martin: Expert Observer - 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, Bangor, 1865
… The 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, a Civil War regiment organized as the 18th Maine Infantry, returned to Bangor in September 1865, greeted by a large…
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Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4
The Second Maine Regiment, consisting of men from Bangor and the nearby region left Bangor on May 14th, just one month after Lincoln's call for…
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4
By the end of the 18th century, townspeople asked that the area be incorporated. Governor Caleb Strong, of Massachusetts, decreed on January 31…