Maine Memory Network
Maine's Online Museum

Title: Civil War infantry soldier, Vassalboro, ca. 1864

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library

Date: circa 1864

Location: Vasselboro

Media: Carte-de-Visite; photograph

Title: Civil War infantry soldier, ca. 1862

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library

Date: circa 1862

Media: Tintype

Title: Civil War Soldiers' Monument postcard, Bath, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Patten Free Library

Date: circa 1940

Location: Bath; Richmond; Frederick City

Media: black-and-white lithographed postcard

Address: 9-11 Munjoy Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Debbie J. Sanborn et al, Widow of Civil War Veteran

Use: Stable

Address: 9-11 Munjoy Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Debbie J. Sanborn et al, Widow of Civil War Veteran

Use: Dwelling - Single family

Address: 292 Allen Avenue, Portland

Owner in 1924: John W Lambert

Style: Italianate

Use: Dwelling - Single family

Monuments to Civil War Soldiers

Maine supplied a huge number of soldiers to the Union Army during the Civil War -- some 700,000 -- and responded after the war by building monuments to soldiers who had served and soldiers who had died in the epic American struggle.

Meshach P. Larry: Civil War Letters

Meshach P. Larry, a Windham blacksmith, joined Maine's 17th Regiment Company H on August 18, 1862. Larry and his sister, Phebe, wrote to each other frequently during the Civil War, and his letters paint a vivid picture of the life of a soldier.

Rebecca Usher, Civil War Nurse

Rebecca Usher of Hollis signed letters that she penned for wounded Civil War soldiers with the saying, "Yours for the Soldier, Rebecca Usher." She was one of 20,000 women who worked in Union military hospitals.

Maine and the Civil War

A portal to Maine Memory Network images, documents, artifacts, and essays about the Civil War.

Cumberland & North Yarmouth

A unique two-town history. Prince Memorial Library, Cumberland Historical Society, North Yarmouth Historical Society, Skyline Farm, and Greely Middle School partnered to tell the story of how Cumberland and North Yarmouth were originally part of the same community. Libraries, the Civil War, pauper laws, main streets, local industries, and Skyline Farm are some of the topics covered on the site.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village

The history of a small western Maine community north of Farmington as told by a team consisting of Strong Historical Society, Strong Elementary School, and Strong Public Library. Exhibit topics include Strong's prominence in the wood products industry (it was once the "Toothpick Capital of the World"), the "Bridge that Changed the Map," schools and educational history, clubs and organizations, "Fly Rod" Crosby, the first Maine guide, and a rich student section related to the Civil War and post-Civil War era in the town.