Keywords: Regimental hospitals
Item 66028
Alonzo Garcelon to Israel Washburn on regimental surgeons, 1861
Contributed by: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Date: 1861-04-24 Location: Lewiston Media: Ink on paper
Item 80987
Isaac Starbird letter to Rebecca Usher, Litchfield, 1865
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1863 Location: Hollis; Litchfield; Gettysburg Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Surgeon General Alonzo Garcelon
Alonzo Garcelon of Lewiston was a physician, politician, businessman, and civic leader when he became Maine's surgeon general during the Civil War, responsible for ensuring regiments had surgeons, for setting up a regimental hospital in Portland, and generally concerned with the well-being of Maine soldiers.
Exhibit
San Life: the Western Maine Sanatorium, 1928-1929
Merle Wadleigh of Portland, who was in his mid 20s, took and saved photographs that provide a glimpse into the life of a tuberculosis patient at the Western Maine Sanatorium in Hebron in 1928-1929.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War
"On November 30, 1864, he died in the regimental hospital and was buried at Barrancas National Cemetery in Florida in grave 5-0-535. Alanson F."
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4
"In 1937, the hospital closed, and Dr. Bell began working at the first Franklin Memorial Hospital building in Farmington."
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
Story
My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne
Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima
