Keywords: Maine Civil War Monuments
Item 100407
Civil War soldier's monument, Rumford Center, 1921
Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Date: 1921 Location: Rumford Media: Postcard
Item 71735
World War and Civil War Monument, Saco, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Location: Saco Media: Linen texture postcard
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
Memorializing Civil War Veterans: Portland & Westbrook
Three cemeteries -- all of which were in Westbrook during the Civil War -- contain headstones of Civil War soldiers. The inscriptions and embellishments on the stones offer insight into sentiments of the eras when the soldiers died.
Site Page
"Soldier's Monument X "How did the Civil war impact your life? Your future? Or future as a town?" The Civil War impacted my life because, when I…"
Site Page
Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3
"… in Market Square, now the site of the statue in Monument Square. At the far left is seen the tower of the Free Will Baptist Church on Casco Street…"
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
