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Tag Archives: Maine at War
Under Fire: A Bullet and Blood at Bull Run
A bullet striking a comrade standing just a few feet away introduced a Maine soldier to combat’s realities. A 22-year-old college student when Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, Frank Lindley Lemont grew up on the Lewiston farm owned by his … Continue reading
Posted in 160th Anniversary, Battles, Common Soldier
Tagged 2nd Vermont Infantry, 3rd Maine Infantry, 4th Maine Infantry, 5th Maine Infantry, Aaron S. Daggett, Brian Swartz, Bull Run, Emery W. Sawyer, First-Experiences-Under-Fire, Frank L. Lemont, Frank Lindley Lemont, Irvin McDowell, Joseph E. Johnston, Lewiston, Maine at War, manassas, Oliver Otis Howard, Samuel P. Heintzelman, Sudley Church, Sudley Ford, Under-Fire, Young’s Branch
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Maine at War: August 2021
Here’s what our friend Brian Swartz was up to in August at his blog, Maine at War: August 4, 2021: A good time ensures as Yankees and Confederates fight over a Maine train People flock to the Sandy River & … Continue reading
Growing up a “Brewer boy” like Joshua L Chamberlain
ECW is pleased to welcome back Brian Swartz, author of the new Emerging Civil War Series bio Passing Through the Fire: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the Civil War While growing up in Brewer, Maine, I learned in elementary school about … Continue reading
Maine at War: July 2021
Here’s what Maine at War was up to in July: July 7, 2021: What good are Union monuments at Gettysburg (part 3)? In this time of competing voices concerning the past, anecdotal evidence suggests that this summer some parents are … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Internet, Websites & Blogs
Tagged 31st Maine Infantry, Andersonville, Ann E. Baker, Brian Swartz, Doane Baker, Dr. Jonathan Letterman, Edmund A. Souder, Emily Bliss Souder, Hanover Junction, Joseph A. Thacher, Maine at War, Robert C. Corson, Sisters of Charity, William Colvill
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The Crater Sent a Monster Home to Maine
ECW is pleased to welcome back Brian Swartz, author of the new Emerging Civil War Series book Passing Through the Fire: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in the Civil War. Brian adapted this post for us from a series of posts published … Continue reading
Maine at War: June 2021
Here’s what our friend Brian Swartz was up to in June at his blog, Maine at War: June 2, 2021: Edward Baker was country before there was “country” Eighteen-year-old Edward Baker was a country boy all the way, raised in rural … Continue reading
Maine at War: May 2021
Here’s what our friend, Brian Swartz, was up to in May at his blog, Maine at War: May 5: Fort Knox slates mid-July Civil War encampment Fort Knox, the largest casemate fort on the East Coast, will host a large-scale Civil … Continue reading
Maine at War: April 2021
Here’s what our friend Brian Swartz was up to in April at his blog, Maine at War: April 7, 2021: Maine’s largest cannonball is in … Hodgdon? Although he served only 16 months with the 6th Maine Battery, Aroostook County … Continue reading
Joshua Chamberlain stares down the 1880 Maine rebellion (part one of two)
Emerging Civil War is pleased to feature the work of our friend, Maine at War author Brian Swartz. Part one of two. When a political crisis roiled Maine in early 1880, Joshua L. Chamberlain answered the call to duty and … Continue reading
Posted in Personalities, Politics
Tagged Alonzo Garcelon, Bangor Commercial, Bion Bradbury, Charles A. Nash, Daily Whig and Courier, Daniel F. Davis, Fanny Chamberlain, Fusionists, Governor Chamberlain, insurrection, James G. Blaine, Joseph L. Smith, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Maine, Maine at War, Maine-Insurrection
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