Echoes of Shiloh and Maine

April 5, 2023the Civil War during its sesquicentennial19th U.S. Infantry Regiment, 1st U.S. Infantry Regiment, Albert Sidney Johnston, Bangor, Bloody Pond, Fort Snelling, Hornets' Nest, Laura Clark, Margaret Gear, Mount Hope Cemetery, Peach Orchard, Pittsburgh Landing, Richmond Hayward, Shiloh, Shiloh Indian Mounds National Historic Landmark, Tennessee River, Ulysses Simpson Grant

By Brian Swartz

Tomorrow, April 6, marks 161 years since Confederate Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston pitched into Union Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant in the scrub woods surrounding a rural Tennessee church named “Shiloh.” Named for that church, the two-day battle caused a shocking 23,000-plus casualties, with the hard-up-for-men South losing a bit more than 13,000 soldiers, including the […]

The monumental soldier, Part I

March 7, 2018the Civil War during its sesquicentennial19th Infantry Regiment, Albert Sidney Johnston, Bangor, Charles P. Roberts, Ezekial Gear, Laura Clark, Margaret Gear, Richmond Hayward, Stephen Decatur Carpenter, Susan Heald Carpenter

By Brian Swartz

If you like monuments, Civil War veterans created more than you can imagine — — and an unsung Maine soldier spawned the first privately erected Civil War monument in the United States. The tale begins in Foxcroft in Piscataquis County and ends not that far away. Susan (Heald) Carpenter bore her husband, Joshua, a son […]

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