Keywords: 17th Regiment Maine Volunteers
Item 81845
17th Maine Regiment Flag Fragment, ca. 1863
Contributed by: Maine Irish Heritage Center Date: 1861–1865 Location: Portland Media: Ink on Paper on cloth
Item 23368
Granville Sparrow, 17th Maine Volunteers, ca. 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1863 Media: photographic print
Exhibit
Capt. Grenville F. Sparrow, 17th Maine
Grenville F. Sparrow of Portland was 25 when he answered Lincoln's call for more troops to fight the Confederates. He enlisted in Co. A of Maine's 17th Volunteer Infantry regiment. He fought in 30 battles between 1862 and the war's end in 1865.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Resources
"… Oxford University Press, 1995 Civil War Regiments from Maine, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin, Federal Publishing Company, 1908, reprint 2003…"
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4
"… ardent crusader for the organization of a local volunteer fire department. His big problem was not downright opposition, but public indifference."
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
