Keywords: 29th Maine Infantry
Item 59882
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1923 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Item 100271
John L. Hoyt, Scarborough, ca. 1864
Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: circa 1864 Location: Scarborough Media: Carte de visite
Exhibit
For the Union: Civil War Deaths
More than 9,000 Maine soldiers and sailors died during the Civil War while serving with Union forces. This exhibit tells the stories of a few of those men.
Exhibit
Memorializing Civil War Veterans: Portland & Westbrook
Three cemeteries -- all of which were in Westbrook during the Civil War -- contain headstones of Civil War soldiers. The inscriptions and embellishments on the stones offer insight into sentiments of the eras when the soldiers died.
