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Rural recruits knew their “real” captain by sight

August 30, 2023the Civil War during its sesquicentennial6th Maine Infantry Regiment, Alonzo Bradley, Alphonzo Bradley, C. M. Herring, Charles H. Chandler, Charles Harrison Chandler, Charles Holmes Chandler, Dover, Eliza Chandler, Exeter, Foxcroft, Foxcroft Common, Garland, George E. Edes, Guilford, Harriet Chandler, Ichabod Chandler, James Jewett Chandler, Lucy Chandler, Maryes Heights, Moses W. Brown, Oliver Brown, Penobscot County, Piscataquis County, Piscataquis Observer, Point Lookout, Portland, Sangerville, Sebec, Second Fredericksburg, Sewall C. Gray, Somerset County, Sophia Boardman Chandler, Waterloo, Wellington Besser

By Brian Swartz

Maine’s adjutant general might believe otherwise, but the some four-score enthusiastic volunteers reporting for duty in rural Maine in mid-spring 1861 knew exactly who commanded them. Responding to the Fort Sumter news, young (and not so young) Piscataquis County men had enlisted in a local company by late April. The Maine Legislature had carved the […]

Sumter’s 9/11 aftermath: “We fondly imaged ourselves soldiers”

September 29, 2021the Civil War during its sesquicentennial6th Maine Infantry Regiment, Charles A. Clark, Charles Amory Clark, Charles H. Chandler, Elizabeth W. Clark, Foxcroft Academy, Moses W. Brown, Sangerville, William Goding Clark

By Brian Swartz

When Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, “we were all young. The most of us had seen nothing of the world,” said 20-year-old Charles Amory Clark, whom no one in April 1861 would mistake for a warrior. Born in Sangerville on Jan. 26, 1841 and raised in that rural Piscataquis County town, Clark stood 5-7½ and […]

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Rural recruits knew their “real” captain by sight

Sumter’s 9/11 aftermath: “We fondly imaged ourselves soldiers”

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