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Three Civil War Letters

(Page 4 of 4) Print Version 

Resources:

Alphabetical Index of Maine Volunteers, Etc., Service of the United States during the War of 1861. Supplement to the Annual Reports of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine, for the years 1861, ’62, ’63, ’64, ’65, and 1866. Augusta: Stevens & Sayward, Printers to the State, 1867. Print.

Arms and Equipment of the Confederacy. Alexandria, Va: Time-Life Books, 1996. Print.

Arms and Equipment of the Union. Alexandria, Va: Time-Life Books, 1996. Print.

The Bangor, Brewer and Penobscot County Directory. Boston: W. F. Stanwood, 1864.
Bishop, Chris and Drury, Ian. 1400 Days The Civil War Day by Day. New York: Gallery Books, 1990. Print.

The Bangor, Brewer and Penobscot County Directory. Boston: Samuel S. Smith 1859. Print.

Coddington, Edwin B. The Gettysburg Campaign, A Study in Command. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1968. Print.

Dalton, Peter P. With Our Faces to the Foe: A History of the 4th Maine Infantry in the War of the Rebellion. Union, Maine: Union Publishing Company, 1998. Print.

Illustrated Atlas of the Civil War. Alexandria, Va: Time-Life Books, 1996. Print.

Maine at Gettysburg, Report of Maine Commissioners. Portland, ME: Lakeside Press, 1898. Print.

Mundy, James H. Second to None, The Story of the 2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry: “The Bangor Regiment”. Scarborough, Maine: Harp Publications, 1992. Print.

Shaw, Horace H. The First Maine Heavy Artillery, 1861-1865 : a history of its part and place in the war for the union, with an outline of causes of war and its results to our country, with organization, company, and individual records, by Charles J. House. Portland, Me., 1903. Print.

Stanley, R.H. and Hall, George. Eastern Maine and the Rebellion. Bangor, Me.: R.H. Stanley and Company, 1887. Print.


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Also from the collection:

Sketch of Cook Tent

Sketch of Cook Tent

Fred's drawing of the camp cooking facilities.

Company A, Second Regiment, Maine Volunteers, 1861

Company A, Second Regiment, Maine Volunteers, 1861

Fred kept track of his fellow soldiers. This group from Company A, Second Maine Regiment may have numbered among his friends.

Map of Lawson's Hill Virginia

Map of Lawson's Hill Virginia

The Virginia countryside.

Civil War bayonet, ca. 1864

Civil War bayonet, ca. 1864

The 4th Regiment, along with many others, had lost much of its equipment and personal effects in the confusion of the battle of 1st Bull Run. New guns would have been necessary. With an overall length of nearly 29 inches, this saber bayonet would have added substantial weight to the rifle.

Civil War Envelope, ca. 1862

Civil War Envelope, ca. 1862

Second letter

Civil War Envelope

Civil War Envelope

Third letter





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