Keywords: Gettysburg
Item 5201
View from Little Roundtop, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Gettysburg Media: Photographic print
Item 4333
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863-07-01 Location: Gettysburg Media: Original is engraving on wood
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Lt. Charles A. Garcelon, 16th Maine
The son of Maine's surgeon general and nephew of a captain in the 16th Maine, Charles A. Garcelon of Lewiston served in Co. I of the 16th Maine. His letters home in the first 17 months of his service express his reflections on war and his place in it.
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.
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Music in Maine - Drum, Stockton Springs, ca. 1840
"… of Stockton commanded the Artillery at Gettysburg in front of Pickett's Charge. He was slightly wounded at the Battle of Deep Bottom, but the wound…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 4 of 4
"Smith 1859. Print. Coddington, Edwin B. The Gettysburg Campaign, A Study in Command. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1968. Print. Dalton, Peter P."