Maine at War Posts for September 2025
In September 2025, Maine at War introduced soldiers from Vienna (not Austria) and met a soldier missing in action when he returned home 75 years later. We explored the “Horror is a Sunken Road” at Antietam and joined a senseless charge at Port Hudson.
September 3, 2025: The three-of-a-kind soldiers from Vienna
Three-of-a-kind soldiers surnamed Dowst went to war from the Kennebec County town of Vienna. Its name pronounced in Maine style, not European, the town had a healthy population in Dowsts in 1861, less so four years later.
September 10, 2025: A soldier missing for 75 years returns home
Army Corp. Oscar Linwood Sprague went missing in action while fighting Communist troops on Hill 209 in South Korea in early September 1950. As did many relatives of missing Civil War soldiers, Oscar’s family hoped he would one day come home. Through modern forensics, he did in September 2025.
September 17, 2025: Horror in a Sunken Road
Confederate infantry valiantly defended a sunken farm road against attacking Union infantry until bloodily pried from it at Sharpsburg. Colonel Thomas Hyde and his shrunken 7th Maine Infantry Regiment encountered horror while crossing the road around 5 p.m. on September 17, 1862.
September 24, 2025: A Maine hero pays the price at Port Hudson …
Arriving in Louisiana as an artillery lieutenant, Thomas Hubbard soon joined the staff of Brig. Gen. Godfrey Weitzel. Transferred to Port Hudson, Hubbard participated in the May 27, 1863 assault that gained the Union nothing but blood, guts, and pain.
