Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - Boy at Bangor parade, July 4, 1865

"… Museum Description A boy in the post Civil War July 4 parade in Bangor in 1865 is dressed in "white waste and fashionable felt & straw…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Soldier, Bangor, ca. 1860

"… "in the free states" before 1861 when the Civil War began. Martin, on page 114 of the "Scrap & Sketch Book" that he began in 1864, described the…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Fashions in Bangor, 1866

"… life, and fashion had changed by the end of the Civil War. He wrote under the illustration, "Fashions August 1866, Bangor." View additional…"

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas G. Libby

"… state for the first time when he enlisted in the Civil War. He went to war when he was fourteen to be a drummer boy."

Lincoln, Maine - Jonathan Clay Jr.

"Jonathan Clay, Jr. Killed in the Civil War at Petersubrg, VA. He was buried in a mass grave. X Brent Davis "Compare and contrast your topic in…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"… along with the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and the Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War still carry on the…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Soldier transport ships, Bangor, 1865

"… residents, awaited the arrival of returning Civil War soldiers in September 1865. Martin, an accountant and shopkeeper who wrote and illustrated…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Hannibal Hamlin, Bangor, 1866

"… Hamlin was a lawyer in Hampden before the Civil War. He had served in the Maine House of Representatives and the U.S. House and Senate."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Dr. George W. Ladd, Bangor, ca. 1866

"… Republican, described the activities of the post Civil War Democrats in Bangor. Martin wrote about a speech Ladd gave on Sept."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Thomas White Dry Good Emporium, Bangor, 1864

"… that accompanies the drawing that when the Civil War broke out in 1861, Daniel Chaplin, a clerk for Thurston & Metcalf used part of the building…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Marcellus Emery, Bangor, ca. 1864

"… who published a newspaper in Bangor during the Civil War. Union supporters destroyed Emery's press, but he continued publishing."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Resources

"… Thomas Desjardin, Oxford University Press, 1995 Civil War Regiments from Maine, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin, Federal Publishing Company, 1908…"

Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… Cemetery, Ellsworth 1890 Maine Census Index of Civil War Veterans African-American Civil War Monument, Washington, D.C."

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"… politics, dance and music, religion, the Civil War era, Irish in Bangor, family life, medicine and illness, and, the inner workings of various…"

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"… 48 while he was in the military serving in the Civil War. He is the father of Thomas G. Libby. Thomas S."

Lincoln, Maine - Jacob Stinchfield

"His son, Charles, was the person who built the Civil War monument at the merging of Routes 2 and 6, in honor of his father, even though Jacob never…"

Lincoln, Maine - Frederick A. Edwards

"… with the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery in the Civil War. Edwards never had to endure the southern prisons, but he was in attendance at the execution of…"

Lincoln, Maine - Newspapers

"… outside of the Lincoln House Hotel about the Civil War. The hotel is not here today, but a new Lincoln House Motel is here."

John Martin: Expert Observer - John Martin's Journal

"… downturns, the Gold Rush, the outbreak of the Civil War, the first electric railroad, noted floods, and descriptions of churches and schools."

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Huntress

"… was involved with the Aroostook War and the Civil War. Warren was ranked 1st Lieutenant in the Aroostook War."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"The Civil War With an 1860 population of 1319 (the highest it had ever been), Surry sent 122 men into the Civil War which significantly impacted the…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 1 of 2

"… content, including discussions of politics, the Civil War and its aftermath, and changes in society and fashion."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Student Research

"Polk researched the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. We brainstormed topics that would be important to the town and to us."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth 1850s shipyardBrick Store Museum Shipbuilding In 1812, the area that later became…"