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Three Newport monuments honor local Civil War veterans

August 23, 2023the Civil War during its sesquicentennial2nd Maine Infantry Regiment, Arthur W. Lander, Cemetery Road, Charles P. Stetson, Great Libby, H. G. Libby Post, H. G. Libby Woman’s Relief Corps No. 65, Hollis Gardner Libby, Maine Central Railroad, Newport, Newport Honor Roll, Newport Monument Association, Newport Triangle, Riverside Cemetery, Riverwalk Park, Sebasticook River, Spanish-American War, Thomas A. Taylor, Willetts’ Point

By Brian Swartz

Local women paid for two of the three veterans’ monuments in Newport, a town (3,133 residents in 2020) located at the modern crossroads of central Maine, the “Newport Triangle” where Interstate-95 meets routes 2, 7, 11, and 100. Those two monuments (and later the third) honor Newport’s Civil War veterans, in part or in whole. […]

A Gettysburg mystery

February 23, 2022the Civil War during its sesquicentennial5th Maine Infantry Regiment, Cornish, Franklin Bean, George W. Bicknell, Gettysburg, Greenleaf Lodge, John C. Wadsworth, Maine at Gettysburg, Portland Daily Press, Riverside Cemetery

By Brian Swartz

Among the Mainers killed at Gettysburg exists a mystery: John C. Wadsworth of Cornish. His Masonic brothers held a funeral for their brother slain on the field of valor, and everyone in Cornish believed he died at Gettysburg. Yet … When he enlisted in the 5th Maine Infantry Regiment on August 5, 1862, Wadsworth was […]

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Three Newport monuments honor local Civil War veterans

A Gettysburg mystery

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