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Item 4170
Title: Rebecca Usher, Hollis, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1900
Location: Hollis Center
Media: Black and white photograph
Item 16720
Title: Walter Hustus letter concerning army training, 1943
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1943-05-08
Location: Fort Myers
Media: Ink on paper
Item 16723
Title: Postcard from Walter Hustus to grandmother, 1943
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1943
Location: South Portland; Pyote
Media: Postcard
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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.
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War Through the Eyes of a Young Sailor
Eager to deal with the "Sesech" [Secessionists], young deepwater sailor John Monroe Dillingham of Freeport enlisted in the U.S. Navy as soon as he returned from a long voyage in 1862. His letters and those of his family offer first-hand insight into how one individual viewed the war.
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A Soldier's Declaration of Independence
William Bayley of Falmouth (Portland) was a soldier in the Continental Army, seeing service at Ticonderoga, Valley Forge, Monmouth Court House, and Saratoga, among other locations. His letters home to his mother reveal much about the economic hardships experienced by both soldiers and those at home.