Lt. John French and Lt. John Stevens, 1863
Contributed by Fifth Maine Regiment Museum
Description
Lt. John French of Albion, left, and Lt. John Stevens both were in the 5th Maine Regiment in the Civil War. Both enlisted in Lewiston.
Lt. Stevens, a native of Lewiston, kept a diary through the Civil War. It was later published by his descendants.
Both men are aged 23 in this picture; three months after the picture was taken, French was killed at Rappahannock Station.
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