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Keywords: Regimental Histories
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Item 4163
Title: Chamberlain and 20th Maine, Gettysburg reunion, 1889
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Location: Gettysburg
Media: Black and white photograph
Item 34159
Title: George E. Brown, Fifth Maine Regiment, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Fifth Maine Regiment Museum
Date: circa 1870
Location: Portland
Media: Photograph
Item 34136
Title: John French letter to brother, Washington, D.C., 1861
Contributed by: Fifth Maine Regiment Museum
Date: 1861-07-06
Location: Washington; Albion
Media: Ink on paper
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The 12th Maine Regiment, organized in November 1861 for three years, served primarily in New Orleans.
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The 1st Maine Regiment Cavalry mustered in at Augusta on Nov. 5, 1861 and fought in 29 battles before its three-year service ended in November 1864. The 1st Maine Cavalry suffered the heaviest losses of any Union cavalry regiment.
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The Fifth Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry was mustered into service in June 1861, only months after the beginning of hostilities.
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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.