Keywords: amputation
Item 72202
Disharge for Disability for Daniel D. Martin, Sebago, 1862
Contributed by: Sebago Historical Society Date: 1862-11-27 Location: Sebago; New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 80438
Pvt. George Redlon from D.C. hospital, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: South China; Washington; Centreville Media: Pencil on paper
Exhibit
Music in Maine - Drum, Stockton Springs, ca. 1840
"… chloroform anesthesia used during an operation to amputate his finger in September 1864. A label inside the McGilvery’s drum notes the maker…"
Exhibit
Home Ties: Sebago During the Civil War
Letters to and from Sebago soldiers who served in the Civil War show concern on both sides about farms and other issues at home as well as concern from the home front about soldiers' well-being.
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Thomas G. Libby
"… wounded by a gun shot and had to get his finger amputated. He escaped from the hospital and went to a new one."
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
Story
My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne
Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima