Keywords: Young Civil War Soldier
Item 70735
Civil War infantry soldier, ca. 1862
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1862 Media: Tintype
Item 70734
Civil War infantry soldier, Vassalboro, ca. 1864
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1864 Location: Vassalboro Media: Carte de visite
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
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War
"Soldiers Of The Civil War Text By: Strong School 7th and 8th Graders, 2011-2012 Return to Student Research Many young men from Strong and Freeman…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War
"In addition many former soldiers left our communities to settle elsewhere, including lands in the western United States."
Story
Civil War Soldier comes home after 158 years
by Jamison McAlister
Civil War Soldier comes home after 158 years
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
