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Historical Items

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Item 16381

Soldiers Cemetery, Hancock Barracks, Houlton

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1829 Location: Houlton Media: Digital photograph

Item 6779

Soldier relaxing, Fort Williams, 1927

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1927 Location: Cape Elizabeth Media: Glass Negative

Item 100740

Soldiers' Monument and Library, Pittsfield, 1904

Contributed by: An individual through Maine Central Institute Date: circa 1904 Location: Pittsfield Media: Postcard

Online Exhibits

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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.

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Civil War Soldiers Impact Pittsfield

Although not everyone in town supported the war effort, more than 200 Pittsfield men served in Civil War regiments. Several reminders of their service remain in the town.

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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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Guilford, Maine - PEOPLE

"He was laid to rest in Elmwood Cemetery. Gravesite of Moses Guilford Low found during Cemetery Tour X"

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"… fire started in the store and it spread to the rest of the hall. The building lasted for seventy-seven years until this fire."

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Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 3 of 5

"One section rested in a place down stream. The second section kept on going and went down over the dam in Dover-Foxcroft."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Civil War Soldier comes home after 158 years
by Jamison McAlister

Civil War Soldier comes home after 158 years

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.

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Serving in Vietnam with Richard Hershel Green
by Peter P. Joyce Jr.

Don't get close to the new guy