Keywords: Soldier's Monument
Item 15753
Pledge to Cape Elizabeth Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association, 1897
Contributed by: South Portland Historical Society Date: 1897-07-01 Location: South Portland Media: Paper
Item 108763
Monument Square, Portland, ca. 1963
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1963 Location: Portland Media: 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
John Martin: Expert Observer - Soldiers' Monument, Bangor, 1864
"Soldiers' Monument, Bangor, 1864 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description The Bangor Soldiers' Monument…"
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property
"… his name listed on the African-American Civil War Monument in Washington, D.C. at the corner of Vermont and U Streets in northwest Washington, D.C."
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
Story
The Wall
by Michael Uhl
What it means to have beaten the odds
