Keywords: 18th Regiment
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
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
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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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…