Maine Memory Network

Samuel B. Hunter, 7th Maine, to Alonzo Garcelon, 1862

Contributed by: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Date: 1862 Media: Ink on paper

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Letter about Pvt. Charles Cole ill health, Washington, D.C., 1862

Contributed by: John Micavich through Sebago Historical Society Date: 1862-12-07 Location: Washington, DC; Sebago Media: Ink on paper

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Student Exhibit: Benedict Arnold's March Through Skowhegan

Benedict Arnold arrived in Skowhegan on October 4th, 1775, and it was here that Arnold received his first offer of help from the colonists. Joseph Weston and his sons helped Benedict Arnold and his army cross over the Skowhegan Falls, but Joseph later got a severe cold from exposure and died of a fever on Oct.16th. His sons went back to the family home along the Kennebec for they were the first family to settle in Old Canaan or what is now Skowhegan.

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.

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"… his collar bone and four ribs, which brought on a fever and further curving of his spine. One day a loud snapping noise came from his upper spine…"

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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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