Pvt. Atwood Young’s great-great-grandsons Philip and Jamison McAlister wanted see his memory and service to country preserved.
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Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, News, Oxford Hills
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.
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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.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
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.
Posted inMaine, News
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.
Posted inConnections
Minot Historical Society Civil War Encampment 2019
Reenactors from the 3rd Maine Infantry, the 15th Alabama and the 5th Connecticut will demonstrate what the life of a common soldier was like during the war.
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Washburn-Norlands to hold 7th Civil War Living History Weekend
This family-friendly event features a wide variety of demonstrations, exhibits, and engaging activities remembering the activities of the Civil War.
Posted inConnections
Peter Hammond to present Civil War program
NORWAY — While chewing on a homemade piece of hardtack, attendees can listen to local history buff Peter Hammond’s program “Battlefield Life in the Civil War” at the Norway Museum and Historical Society, 471 Main St., at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18. Hammond was inspired by the museum’s collections of medical and weaponry, photographs, letters […]
Posted inBethel, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, The Bethel Citizen
Civil War veterans from Greenwood honored with headstones
GREENWOOD — A yearlong, coordinated effort that reached from Maryland to Cape Elizabeth to Greenwood culminated last month when a father and son — both Civil War veterans — finally received headstones recognizing their lives and service. Joseph Herrick of Greenwood was 19 when he enlisted in the 32nd Maine Infantry Regiment in March of […]
Posted inConnections, Livermore Falls Advertiser
Civil War veteran's gravestone dedicated in Wayne
WAYNE — Veterans groups paid homage to Civil War veteran Benjamin F. Burgess by dedicating a stone for his grave in Beech Hill Cemetery on Strickland Ferry Road on July 21. Burgess was born Sept. 27, 1835, and died Oct. 10, 1902. His stone comes 116 years after his death and is beside those of […]