Hannibal Hamlin bash spotlights Lincoln’s vice president, and a town rich in 19th-century charm

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August 21, 2022

Hannibal Hamlin bash spotlights Lincoln’s vice president, and a town rich in 19th-century charm

A celebration Saturday in Paris Hill calls attention to the often-overlooked village where Abraham Lincoln's first vice president was born.
Published
July 5, 2022

A slice of history: East Livermore’s Independence Day abolition rally

Historians say the impact of East Livermore's anti-slavery rally of 1854 spread across Maine with an unprecedented number of attendees.
Published
June 29, 2022

Anderson Staples American Legion serves up food with summer fun

In addition to regular events, the veterans' group is co-presenting The 161st Anniversary of the Civil War with a Living History of Abraham and Mary Lincoln and Other Civil War Storytellers with the Oxford Historical Society on July 2, starting at 10 a.m.
Published
June 23, 2022

Oxford groups to present living history on Civil War, Abraham Lincoln

The daylong program includes a nationally recognized Lincoln historian and Norlands historical interpreters
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May 25, 2022

John Kimball wants to bring Civil War ancestor home to Albany Township

George Wilder Kimball died from disease while serving with the 12th Maine Infantry Regiment and is buried at Chalmette National Cemetery in Louisiana.
Published
May 5, 2022

Civil War soldier killed in 1863 given military burial ceremony in Buckfield, 159 years after his death

Pvt. Atwood Young's great-great-grandsons Philip and Jamison McAlister wanted see his memory and service to country preserved.
Published
December 16, 2021

After 158 years, Civil War soldier granted a headstone for family’s Buckfield cemetery

Pvt. Atwood Young's great-great-grandsons plan a ceremony honoring him in the spring.
Published
August 3, 2021

Deeds and research lead to discovery of lost historic Augusta cemetery

An abandoned city-owned cemetery found in the woods between Riverside Drive and the Kennebec River in Augusta contains graves of Civil and Revolutionary war soldiers.
Published
May 30, 2021

Piecing together the life and tragic death of a Lewiston Civil War POW

A young Oxford-born soldier named Stephen L.T. Mariner died in 1864 in one of the Civil War’s most brutal prisoner-of-war camps, but much of his life remained lost to history. For Memorial Day, the Sun Journal pieced together a portrait of a young man through what was left of his legacy: a collage of records, documents and one local gravestone.
Published
July 8, 2020

Maine descendant of Confederate general pushes for removal of his statue

Inspired by recent protests, Alida Snow of Brunswick has gathered her family members' signatures and requested that the statue of John Brown Gordon be removed from the Georgia State Capitol grounds.