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John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 74-138

"… Circus & Caravan Carlton Dancing School Hampden Rifle Co. Hannibal Hamlin Bill Emery Alfred Herrick Antiquarian Society of Bangor John Sargent Jr."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Alonzo E. Raynes, Bangor, 1849

"… cap, Pilot cloth over coat, hunting boots, and rifle. The form of the cap is exact, the outlines of the coat and boots very near."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 1 of 4

"Our Reg has been partly furnished with Rifles and Co’s A & K are to have Winsor Rifles with sabre Bayonetts – they have come and we shall get them…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"… strapped on our knapsacks, shouldered our rifles and started on. After marching about 12 miles in a drenching rain, we arrived at the scene of…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War

"… were living in the enclosed area with guards with rifles outside the fenced area. Out of the 45,000 Union soldiers confined here at different…"

Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2

"… mortar fire, succeeded in placing an automatic rifle team in position to neutralize the enemy’s fire, thus removing the wounded men to safety."

Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… up the Penobscot River and ransacked stores and rifled provisions from local merchants. The British seized ships in the harbor and burned eight."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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