Keywords: U.S. General Hospital
Item 80993
Rebecca Usher on needs for military hospital, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Hollis; Chester Media: Ink on paper
Item 76607
Letter on hospital space shortage, Portsmouth, Virginia, 1864
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1864 Location: Portsmouth; Norfolk Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Rebecca Usher: 'To Succor the Suffering Soldiers'
Rebecca Usher of Hollis was 41 and single when she joined the Union nursing service at the U.S. General Hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania. Her time there and later at City Point, Virginia, were defining experiences of her life.
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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.
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Mercy Hospital - Portland Hospitals Before Mercy
"Sailors had access to the U.S. Marine Hospital, the mentally ill could go to the State Asylum for the Insane in Augusta, and the poor could receive…"
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Story
Hooch Mum and my Vietnam service
by Jim Barrows
A poem about being a medic, saving Vietnamese people and babies. Sometimes we trusted too much.
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
