Keywords: conscription
Item 11309
Putnam payment for conscription substitute, Houlton, 1864
Contributed by: Cary Library Date: 1864-05-04 Location: Houlton Media: Paper
Item 11318
Feeley substitute for conscription, Bangor, 1863
Contributed by: Cary Library Date: 1863-09-03 Location: Bangor; Houlton Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Presque Isle and the Civil War
Presque Isle had fewer than 1,000 residents in 1860, but it still felt the impact of the Civil War. About half of the town's men went off to war. Of those, a third died. The effects of the war were widespread in the small community.
Exhibit
"… Hansen Bruns (1863-1910) left Denmark to avoid conscription into the army. He was nineteen years old when he arrived in Portland in 1883."
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter
"… were in the army, either voluntarily or conscription. A part of the female portion still remained, but the greater part had gone to Richmond. A…"
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"… and records show that several island men were conscripted into the British army against their will."
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
