Keywords: Fifth Maine Regiment
Item 34159
George E. Brown, Fifth Maine Regiment, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Fifth Maine Regiment Museum Date: circa 1870 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 34386
Fifth Maine Regiment Memorial Hall, Peaks Island, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Fifth Maine Regiment Museum Date: circa 1890 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 83005
Fifth Maine Regimental Mem. Society property, S. Side Seashore Avenue, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Fifth Maine Regimental Mem. Society Use: Summer Dwelling
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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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Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
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"… 1912Fifth Maine Regiment Museum B Company, Fifth Maine Infantry Regiment, served as the most Biddeford dense Maine company during the Civil War. B…"