Keywords: soldiers
Item 15753
Pledge to Cape Elizabeth Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association
Contributed by: South Portland Historical Society Date: 1897-07-01 Location: South Portland Media: Paper
Item 1038
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898 Location: Augusta Media: Photographic print
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
Student Exhibit: A Civil War Soldier from Skowhegan
Alexander Crawford a soldier from Skowhegan, was born in 1839 on a farm on the Dudley Corner Road in Skowhegan. He served in the Civil War and returned to Skowhegan to run the family farm.
Site Page
Maine and the Civil War - Headstone, unknown Confederate soldier, Gray
The gravestone reads, "Stranger, A soldier of the late war died 1862, Erected by the ladies of Gray." View additional information about this item on…
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Lubec's Soldier's Monument
Lubec's Soldier's Monument Soldier's Monument Dedication program, Lubec, 1904 Item 28661 infoLubec Memorial Library
Story
Buck Fever
by William R. Hinderer
A young soldier suffers "buck fever" during combat in Vietnam.
Story
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
