Civil War (1861-1865)

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Maryann Wrigh to Horace Wright from Auburn

Type: OBJECT
Collection: Horace Wright Correspondence - 1st Maine Regiment, 1st Maine Cavalry

Letter to Governor Washburn Requesting Replacement of Reuben Dyer

Letter to Governor Israel Washburn from John Arnold stating that elected officer Reuben Dyer is unfit to serve as captain of the regiment, being "a brawling, disloyal, cesession sympathizer..." Arnold requests that Benjamin F. Sprague be commissioned instead of Dyer.

Type: OBJECT
Collection: Incoming Municipal Correspondence

Letter from Josiah Mitchell to James Blaine requesting to transport soldiers to Augusta, August 26, 1861

Letter from Josiah Mitchell to James Blaine requesting to transport soldiers from Camden and Belfast to Augusta.

Type: OBJECT
Collection: Incoming Municipal Correspondence

Letter to John Hodsdon from Samuel Thomas

Letter to Adjutant General Hodsdon regarding enlistment of Alfred L. Weymouth on December 12 who mustered into the 2nd Maine Cavalry.

Type: OBJECT
Collection: Incoming Municipal Correspondence

Sumner A. Holway Diaries - 1st Maine Cavalry, Company H

Diaries kept by Sumner Ansel Holway of Bingham, Somerset County, Maine during the Civil War in which he records his daily activity as a private in the 1st Maine Cavalry, Company H. Holway writes of his experiences in Virginia in 1862-1863, including the battles of Middletown, 2nd Bull Run, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Brandy Station, and the Battle of Aldie, where he received a leg wound that removed him from the war.

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Dexter True to Mother, Barrancas, FL

Type: OBJECT
Collection: Dexter True, 2nd Maine Cavalry

Horace Wright Correspondence - 1st Maine Regiment, 1st Maine Cavalry

Horace Wright at the age of 42 left his wife, Maryann, and their home in Auburn for a summer away. At least, that is what he thought in April, 1861, when he enlisted in the 1st Maine Infantry Regiment. Assigned with his regiment to provide part of the defense for the city of Washington, Wright is confident that U.S. General Winfield Scott will lead the Army and the Confederacy would soon fall. While the rest of the 1st Maine marches and drills in humid 90-degree heat, he takes the afternoon off. Barely six weeks away from home and yet to have fired a weapon in anger, Horace informs Maryann that he has had enough. "I have got sick and tired of the sound of war, but must stand it a while longer," he writes. Five weeks later, the two armies clash at Manassas Junction, the First Battle of Bull Run. The outcome is not what Wright envisioned. The Union Army suffers nearly 2,900 losses; the Confederate Army suffers almost 400 dead, and more than 1,500 wounded. Wright is assigned to the 10th Maine Infantry Regiment and serves until May 1863. He re-enlists in January 1864 in the 1st Maine Cavalry Regiment and is discharged for illness in August. He does not recover and dies on August 18, 1864. Wright is one of the three officers and 341 enlisted men of the 1st Maine Cavalry who die of disease during the war. “…God deliver me from ever seeing another such a sight as I have seen for the week past but such is the effects of war.”