Maine at War April 2025 blog posts
In April 2025, Maine at War introduced the teenage musicians carrying a tune for the 12th Maine Infantry and a newspaper correspondent playing tourist at Antietam and examined a slight error in the movie Gettysburg.
April 2, 2025: The historic Thomas Hill House has a cannon-sized lawn ornament
The 189-year-old Thomas A. Hill House owned by the Bangor (Maine) Historical Society predates the Civil War and has a close tie to it. Yet visitors can easily overlook that connection when walking up to the house’s main entrance.
April 9, 2025: Maine authorizes women to serve as nurses
Acting quickly on a proposal to let Maine women serve as nurses in state-raised regiments, the Maine Legislature passed the law only 12 days after Confederates fired on Fort Sumter.
April 16, 2025: Teenage musicians helped carry the 12th Maine Infantry’s tune
Two teenage soldiers played their fife and drum to enliven the 12th Maine Infantry’s many marches. Say, just how young were these musicians?
April 23, 2025: The movie Gettysburg and Chamberlain’s historically inaccurate knock-down scene
A Confederate shoots during the Little Round Top combat in the movie Gettysburg, and the bullet knocks down Col. Joshua L. Chamberlain (actor Jeff Daniels). He soon stands and checks for a wound. He finds no blood, but the movie is historically inaccurate as to exactly where the bullet struck Chamberlain.
April 30, 2025: Antietam tourist, spring 1863
A Maine newspaper correspondent arrives at Sharpsburg, hires a local guide, and sets out to explore a battlefield still dotted with graves and hospitals.
