Keywords: Military expenses
Item 66034
Nathaniel French to Alonzo Garcelon on Portland hospital, 1862
Contributed by: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Date: 1862 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 1329
Pay voucher for the expenses of the ship the Albany, 1779
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1779-12-10 Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
This Rebellion: Maine and the Civil War
For Mainers like many other people in both the North and the South, the Civil War, which lasted from 1861-1865, had a profound effect on their lives. Letters, artifacts, relics, and other items saved by participants at home and on the battlefield help illuminate the nature of the Civil War experience for Mainers.
Exhibit
Surgeon General Alonzo Garcelon
Alonzo Garcelon of Lewiston was a physician, politician, businessman, and civic leader when he became Maine's surgeon general during the Civil War, responsible for ensuring regiments had surgeons, for setting up a regimental hospital in Portland, and generally concerned with the well-being of Maine soldiers.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Fabric Adaptive Reuse
"… Show In the past, when silk textiles were so expensive and new dresses required many yards of fabric, women were familiar with the custom of…"
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Mourning Clothing
"The expense of black clothing could be mitigated by means of economically dying existing cotton dresses, or remaking and dyeing an old one."
Story
Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
