Report on seized ordnance, New Orleans, 1862
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Maine Historical Society
Among the officers of the Regiment were lawyers Shepley, Lt. Col. William K. Kimball of Paris, former U.S. Marshal; Major David R. Hastings of Lovell; Quartermaster Horatio Jose of Portland (working as a businessman), Capt. Elisha Winter of Dixfield, Co. D; Capt. Enoch Knight of Bridgton, Co. E; and Capt. John Appleton of Bangor, whose father was a judge, Co. H.
Many members of the regiment also were Democrats.
They were sent first to Lowell, Massachusetts for training. By early January 1862, the regiment, along with others from Maine, was at Ship Island, Mississippi, the staging area for an expected assault on New Orleans.
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