Tag Archives: Monumental Bronze Company

I Zinc It’s Ezra

August 2, 2023the Civil War during its sesquicentennial1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment, Andrew D. Bean, Belfast, Bridgeport, Brooks, Carol A. Grissom, Collins Pattee, Connecticut, Eliza Pattee, Eliza Robertson, Estelle E. Jefferds, Estelle E. Pattee, Eveline E. Pattee, Ezra E. Pattee, Ezra Pattee, Jackson, Lizzie A. Pattee, Monroe, Monroe Road, Monroe Village Cemetery, Monumental Bronze Company, Nicholas Jefferds, Ruth Pattee, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, Susan Jefferds, Waldo County

By Brian Swartz

On a warm and overcast June Saturday morning, we pull into the Monroe Village Cemetery, a rural burying ground in equally rural northern Waldo County. Laid out across sloping terrain rising toward the southwest, the cemetery borders the Monroe Road about a half mile northeast of Monroe Village, the developed area around the intersection of […]

Vandal strikes the Monroe Civil War monument

December 20, 2017the Civil War during its sesquicentennial2nd Wisconsin Infantry, Andrew J. Curtis, Andrew Jackson Curtis, Lydia A. Ewell, Monroe, Monroe Soldiers Monument Association, Monumental Bronze Company, Stephen O. Curtis, Tom Desjardin, Village Cemetery, William H. Curtis

By Brian Swartz

Who vandalized the Civil War monument in Monroe? Has a Confederate-hater mistaken the great coat-clad Union infantryman atop the monument for a Johnny Reb? Let’s look back 130½ years to see how this story began. On Memorial Day (Monday, May 30) 1887, hundreds of people trekked to the Village Cemetery on the Monroe Road in […]

Maine at War

Maine and the Civil War

Tag Archives: Monumental Bronze Company

I Zinc It’s Ezra

Vandal strikes the Monroe Civil War monument

Blogs

Share this:

Share this:

Blogs