Keywords: nine month enlistment
Item 65828
E.S. Calderwood on nine-month enlistment, Baton Rouge, 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Location: Baton Rouge Media: Ink on paper
Item 11314
W.H. Hammond letter to wife, ca. 1862
Contributed by: Cary Library Date: circa 1862 Location: Houlton; Penobscot; Arlington Heights; Washington Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Civil War Soldiers Impact Pittsfield
Although not everyone in town supported the war effort, more than 200 Pittsfield men served in Civil War regiments. Several reminders of their service remain in the town.
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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
Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement
"… were four school districts (later expanded to nine). In 1808, on petition of Philip Jarvis, John Farnsworth and Elisha Austin, the selectmen…"
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay
"… play every week during their summer seasons of nine or ten weeks. Shows were often recent hits from Broadway or revivals of older classics."
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
Learning to fly and instructing cadets at West Point during WWII
by Vera Cleaves
West Point during World War II
