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Historical Items

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Item 15535

Samuel E. Stone of Brewer, military discharge paper, 1865

Contributed by: Brewer Public Library Date: 1895-05-13 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 74935

Medical director report on Perkins, New Orleans, 1863

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863-05-13 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper

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Item 18109

Roswell Prescott discharge certificate, 1868

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1868 Media: Ink on paper

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Online Exhibits

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Home Ties: Sebago During the Civil War

Letters to and from Sebago soldiers who served in the Civil War show concern on both sides about farms and other issues at home as well as concern from the home front about soldiers' well-being.

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George F. Shepley: Lawyer, Soldier, Administrator

George F. Shepley of Portland had achieved renown as a lawyer and as U.S. Attorney for Maine when, at age 42 he formed the 12th Maine Infantry and went off to war. Shepley became military governor of Louisiana early in 1862 and remained in the military for the duration of the war.

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Lt. Charles A. Garcelon, 16th Maine

The son of Maine's surgeon general and nephew of a captain in the 16th Maine, Charles A. Garcelon of Lewiston served in Co. I of the 16th Maine. His letters home in the first 17 months of his service express his reflections on war and his place in it.

Site Pages

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Lincoln, Maine - Ariel G. Edwards, WW II soldier, Lincoln, 1943

"He was discharged September 15, 1945. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

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Lincoln, Maine - Paul Fleming, WW II, South Germany, 1945

"He was discharged on February 14, 1946. View additional information about this item on the Maine Memory Network."

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"An apprentice or servant discharged due to ill treatment, or whose master died, could be bound out again."

My Maine Stories

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My Vietnam service detailed in Life Magazine
by Henry B. Severance III

My company's service was documented by war photographer Catherine Leroy in Life Magazine.

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Welcome home Sgt. Cunningham
by Donald C Cunningham

It was great to be back in Maine.

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Protesters spit on me as a Vietnam Veteran
by Joseph Rocque Jr.

I will never forget the horror of seeing all the protestors greeting my plane returning from Vietnam