Maine Memory Network

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Lincoln, Maine - Frederick A. Edwards

"Edwards never had to endure the southern prisons, but he was in attendance at the execution of a Confederate Captain, who had killed a guard in an…"

Early Maine Photography - War - Page 2 of 2

"… Virginia and died in November in the Confederate prison camp in Salisbury, North Carolina. Sgt. Nelson W. Jones, 3rd Maine Infantry, ca."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - War of 1812

"… Many townspeople were held captive on a British prison ship and others were held in John Crosby’s warehouse at the corner of Elm Street West and…"

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas G. Libby

"… in the hospital, he learned first hand how the prisoners of war were treated better than the wounded soldiers, so he broke out of the hospital."

Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"Military Prison in Richmond, Virginia. From there, he was transferred to a prison in Salisbury, North Carolina on October 9, 1864."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - A Murder In Strong

"He died at the Maine State Prison after only serving six years, proclaiming his innocence to the day he died."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Grand Army of the Republic

"He died on October 6, 1864, in Andersonville Prison of scorbutus. He is buried at the Andersonville National Cemetery."

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"While captured she spent most of her time in a prisoner of war camp. Even during that rough time she helped injured prisoners in the camp."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"Ames on January 10, 1864. He went to prison in the same year. People say that he died in prison in the state of Georgia on March 3, 1865."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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