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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.
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 His war experiences and later life were recorded in a series of diaries, as well as summarized in unpublished reminiscences written in 1920. Shortly after President Champlin closed the college in the ensuing excitement after the news of the firing on Fort Sumpter 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 (Grecian and Roman Antiquities, Robsn DE59.B685 E5 1848)) that he purchased while a prisoner. 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. Written during 1862-1863, Holway writes of his experiences in Virginia, 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
- 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.”
Edward Alonzo True Correspondence 1860-1864
- Letters from Edward A. True of Hope, Maine to his sister Rosie True, 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.