Military History
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Dexter True, 2nd Maine Cavalry
- Dexter W. True of Turner, Maine, enlisted at age 23 in Company I, 2nd Maine Cavalry, on December 22, 1863. He was promoted to Corporal and then to Sergeant in 1865 and was mustered out on December 6, 1865. His wife, Celestia, died in 1869 at 23, and he died on November 23, 1876. They are buried in the Twin Bridges Cemetery in Livermore.
Letter from Stephen Boyden, 1st Maine Calvary, Company
- Civil War letter from Stephen Boyden, of Robbinston, Maine. Company F, 1st Maine Calvary from Petersburg July 6, 1864.
Richard C. Shannon Diary, 5th Maine Regiment
- Richard Cutts Shannon (Colby, 1862) had a rich and interesting life. He served in the Civil War, traveled to Brazil and China, attended law school at age 44, served in the diplomatic core, and was a congressman from New York’s 13th District. His war experiences and later life were recorded in a series of diaries, as well as summarized in unpublished reminiscences written in 1920. After the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861, Shannon enlisted in Company “H” of the 5th Maine Regiment Volunteer Infantry. He was made an aide-de-camp for General Slocum in March 1862 and was taken prisoner at Chancellorsville in May 1863. Shannon spent 18 days in Libby Prison in Richmond and recorded his diary entries on blank leaves of a book. He was honorably discharged in 1866 and received the brevets of Major and Lieutenant Colonel in 1867. Text from http://www.colby.edu/specialcollections/about/richard-cutts-shannon-colby-1862/ Transcriptions may be found at http://web.colby.edu/csc-home/shannon/
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.
Horace Wright Correspondence - 1st Maine Regiment, 1st Maine Cavalry
- In April 1861, Horace Wright enlisted in the 1st Maine Infantry Regiment, and left his wife Maryanne and their home in Auburn. Assigned with his regiment to provide part of the defense for the city of Washington, Wright was confident that the Confederacy would soon fall. The aftermath of Manassas, or the First Battle of Bull Run, was not what Wright envisioned, with hundreds of casualties on both sides. He wrote, “…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.” Wright re-enlisted in January 1864 in the 1st Maine Cavalry Regiment and was discharged for illness, dying shortly after on August 18, 1864.
Edward Alonzo True Correspondence 1860-1864
- Letters from Edward A. True of Hope, Maine to his sisters Rosie True and Lizzie True, mother Olive K. True, and father Edward True. Collection includes letters to Edward True from friends. Edward True enlisted at Hope, Maine on August 14, 1861 and was mustered into the 8th Maine Regiment as a lieutenant. He mustered out January 18, 1866 as colonel.