Keywords: union soldier
Item 69553
Pvt. Abner H. Foster, Union soldier, ca. 1864
Contributed by: Ben Conant through Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1964 Location: Freeman Media: Tintype
Item 5261
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1861 Location: Union Media: Photographic print
Item 111555
Barracks in Togus, Chelsea, 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1900–1935 Location: Chelsea; Eastport Client: Eastern Branch N.H.D.V.S. Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
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
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.
Site Page
Maine and the Civil War - Poster seeking cavalry horses, Aroostook County, 1861
"… desire of the army to purchase of horses for the Union cavalry in various communities in Aroostook County."
Site Page
Maine and the Civil War - Letter from Daniel Lord to his wife, July 21, 1861
"… news from his trip to Washington, D.C., and the Union troops. He sends greetings to his children, also."
Story
Civil War Soldier comes home after 158 years
by Jamison McAlister
Civil War Soldier comes home after 158 years
Story
Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey
Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics
