Keywords: Young Civil War Infantry Soldier
Item 70735
Civil War infantry soldier, ca. 1862
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1862 Media: Tintype
Item 70734
Civil War infantry soldier, Vassalboro, ca. 1864
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1864 Location: Vassalboro Media: Carte de visite
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.
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.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War
"In 1865 he was transferred to the 14th Maine Infantry division. Hiram left the Army after the Civil War ended and returned to Maine."
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War
"1896 The Diaries of Sarah Jane and Emma Ann Foster: A Year in Maine During the Civil War. Wayne E. Reilly, ed."
Story
Civil War Soldier comes home after 158 years
by Jamison McAlister
Civil War Soldier comes home after 158 years
