Keywords: Victory (2nd)
Item 28115
The schooner Victory, Hampden, ca. 1898
Contributed by: Hampden Historical Society Date: circa 1898 Location: Hampden Media: Photographic print
Item 97590
Pvt. John P. Sheahan on progress of war, Washington, D.C., 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Dennysville; Washington Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Capt. Grenville F. Sparrow, 17th Maine
Grenville F. Sparrow of Portland was 25 when he answered Lincoln's call for more troops to fight the Confederates. He enlisted in Co. A of Maine's 17th Volunteer Infantry regiment. He fought in 30 battles between 1862 and the war's end in 1865.
Exhibit
Imagery on letterhead soldiers used, on soldiers' memorials produced after the war, and on many other items captured the themes of the American Civil War: union, liberty, and freedom.
Site Page
Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Story
Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne
Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII