Keywords: Ship Island, LA
Item 79906
Capt. Charles Barnard letter from Ship Island, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: New Orleans, LA; Mobile, AL; Mississippi City, MS Media: Ink on paper
Item 73966
Gen. Shepley inquiry about soldier, New Orleans, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Baton Rouge, LA; New Orleans, LA Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
Site Page
"Champlain, Samuel de. "Les Voyages de La Nouvelle-France Occidentale," Dicte Canada. Paris, 1632. Fischer, David Hackett."
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down