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Historical Items

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Item 64487

John P. Sheahan on nearing Petersburg, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Petersburg; Dennysville Media: Ink on paper

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Item 64490

John P. Sheahan on Petersburg trenches, 1864

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Dennysville; Petersburg Media: Ink on paper

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Item 54528

William B. Adams description of fight, Virginia, 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1865 Location: Petersburg Media: Ink on paper

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Online Exhibits

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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.

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Lillian Nordica: Farmington Diva

Lillian Norton, known as Nordica, was one of the best known sopranos in America and the world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She was a native of Farmington.

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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.

Site Pages

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Lincoln, Maine - Jonathan Clay Jr.

"… was killed December 18, 1864, at the Battle of Petersburg during the American Civil War. Jonathan Clay, Jr."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 4, pages 57-76

"… exhibition Fort Sumter Capture of Richmond, Petersburg Lee's surrender Bangor victory "parade" Gorham L. Boynton Israel B. Norcross Llewellyn J."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4

"Petersburg, Florida, and was later exhibited on television. In 2007 the Scarborough Historical Society acquired one of Litchfield’s violins and had…"

My Maine Stories

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How I broke the mold for women to serve in the military
by Mary D. McGuirk

My life and career as a USAF Nurse