Keywords: Civil War Memorial
Item 34291
Civil War Memorial, Bangor, ca. 1875
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1875 Location: Bangor Media: Stereograph
Item 94910
Civil War remembrance poem, Presque Isle, 1905
Contributed by: Presque Isle Historical Society Date: 1861–1864 Location: Presque Isle Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Memorializing Civil War Veterans: Portland & Westbrook
Three cemeteries -- all of which were in Westbrook during the Civil War -- contain headstones of Civil War soldiers. The inscriptions and embellishments on the stones offer insight into sentiments of the eras when the soldiers died.
Exhibit
Monuments to Civil War Soldiers
Maine supplied a huge number of soldiers to the Union Army during the Civil War -- some 70,000 -- and responded after the war by building monuments to soldiers who had served and soldiers who had died in the epic American struggle.
Site Page
Maine and the Civil War - Communities and the War
"… from their historical collections relating to the Civil War era and residents of their area who participated in the war; held "One Book, One…"
Site Page
Maine and the Civil War - Legendary Participation
"If your organization has Civil War related materials you wish to contribute to Maine Memory Network, go to our Share Your Local History section or…"
Story
Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall
Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.