Keywords: Incident reports
Item 23910
George Pierce on Bowdoin incident, Brunswick, 1823
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1823 Location: Brunswick Media: Ink on paper
Item 74388
George Henry Preble plea for reinstatement, Mobile, AL, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Mobile Media: Ink on paper
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George Henry Preble of Portland, nephew of Edward Preble who was known as the father of the U.S. Navy, temporarily lost his command during the Civil War when he was charged with failing to stop a Confederate ship from getting through the Union blockade at Mobile.
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Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter
Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Benjamin Kimball, Bangor, ca. 1867
"… he lost most of his business as a result of the incident. Kimball and Martin were both Republicans; Hayford was a Democrat."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Atticus: A Fugitive Slave
"About 50 years after the incident, it is rumored that Atticus, then an elderly man, approached a grandson of Captain Philbrook, who happened to be…"
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Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
