Maine at War October 2024 blog posts

In October, Maine at War explored various Civil War-related sites in New Hampshire. Some are obscure, some are quite public—and researching the sites and people was challenging!

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Let’s explore modern New Hampshire and the Civil War!

October 2, 2024: New Hampshire monument caused the Confederacy a lot of trouble

Dissatisfied with their town’s simple granite-obelisk Civil War monument, GAR members in Bristol, New Hampshire thought “big”—and acquired a massive Navy mortar used to shell Confederate posts along the Mississippi River. The mortar remains Bristol’s official Civil War monument to this day!

October 3, 2024: Mules to the rescue in the North Carolina Blue Ridge

After Hurricane Helene tore apart western North Carolina, the Mountain Mule Packer Ranch sent its personnel to transport food, water, and other supplies, into hard-hit areas. The mules did what their Civil War counterparts did in terms of delivering the goods!

October 9, 2024: The Civil War connection in a White Mountains valley

An obscure historical site alongside the Kancamagus Highway in New Hampshire’s White Mountains surely has no connection to the Civil War, but a sharp-eyed Civil War buff visiting the early 19th-century farmstead will immediately spot the connection.

October 16, 2024: The cannon of Crawford Notch

Deep in New Hampshire’s Crawford Notch, a Civil War buff may encounter a cannon billed as dating to the Civil War. Could this be true? What’s the cannon’s backstory?

October 23, 2024: A striking monument stands on a New Hampshire town common

The architecturally striking Civil War monument located in Newport, New Hampshire might be mistaken for a religious shrine.

October 30, 2024: Lincoln Assassination witness funded a New Hampshire monument

A veteran of the 12th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Capt. Edwin E. Bedee was on staff duty when he witnessed history at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865. Almost 40 years later and now a successful diamond merchant, Bedee paid for the Civil War monument erected in his erstwhile hometown of Meredith, New Hampshire.