Keywords: Sailor's Battery
Item 108725
Bird's eye view of Castine, 1889
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1889 Location: Castine Media: ink on paper
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
Monuments to Civil War Soldiers
Maine supplied a huge number of soldiers to the Union Army during the Civil War -- some 70,000 -- and responded after the war by building monuments to soldiers who had served and soldiers who had died in the epic American struggle.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic
"The star means a soldier and a sailor clasping hands in front of a figure of Liberty. Members of the G.A.R."
