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Martha Osgood account of spiritualist, Bar Mills, 1862 26 Aug 2013 | 09:29 pm
Martha Osgood account of spiritualist, Bar Mills, 1862 Martha Usher Osgood, a widow who lived with her family in Bar Mills, wrote to her friend Annie about the lonely Thanksgiving she and her mother ...
Martha Osgood letter on Portland parties, Hollis, 1853 26 Aug 2013 | 09:23 pm
Martha Osgood letter on Portland parties, Hollis, 1853 Martha Usher Osgood (1823-1893), who had been widowed for about four years, described in a letter to "Annie" a three-week visit to Portland to a...
Martha Osgood letter about fabric, dresses, Bar Mills, 1862 26 Aug 2013 | 09:11 pm
Martha Osgood letter about fabric, dresses, Bar Mills, 1862 Martha "Mattie" Usher Osgood of Bar Mills wrote to "Annie" in July 1862 asking her to get some organdy, muslin, linen floss, and other fabr...
Pvt. John E. Stewart letter on army life, Maxall Hill, VA, 1861 26 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
Pvt. John E. Stewart letter on army life, Maxall Hill, VA, 1861 Pvt. John E. Stewart of Co. G of the 6th Maine Infantry, wrote to "friend" Samantha Leighton of Columbia, also Stewart's hometown, appa...
Pvt. George Redlon from D.C. hospital, 1862 26 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
Pvt. George Redlon from D.C. hospital, 1862 Writing from Carver Hospital in Washington, D.C., Pvt. George M. Redlon of Co. B, 4th Maine Infantry, wrote to his father about his progress in recovering ...
Pvt. George Redlon on arm injury, Washington, D.C., 1862 26 Aug 2013 | 07:39 pm
Pvt. George Redlon on arm injury, Washington, D.C., 1862 Pvt. George Redlon of Co. B, 4th Maine Infantry Regiment, wrote from Carver Hospital in Washington, D.C., to tell his father that he had been ...
Pvt. George Redlon to father, Yorktown, Va., 1862 26 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
Pvt. George Redlon to father, Yorktown, Va., 1862 Pvt. George M. Redlon wrote to his father in South China from Camp Knox near Yorktown, Virginia, in April 1862. He commented, "Yorktown is very stro...
John Ingersoll deed to Peleg Wadsworth, Portland, 1784 26 Aug 2013 | 07:20 pm
John Ingersoll deed to Peleg Wadsworth, Portland, 1784 John Ingersoll of Boston sold his lot on what is now Congress Street in Portland to Peleg Wadsworth of Falmouth (Portland) for 100 pounds on Dec...
Thomas W. Hyde letter about cigar, Richmond, Va., 1862 26 Aug 2013 | 07:05 pm
Thomas W. Hyde letter about cigar, Richmond, Va., 1862 Thomas W. Hyde of Bath, captain of Co. D of the 7th Maine Infantry, sent John Marshall Brown of Portland a cigar and an accompanying letter that...
Charles Barnard to wife, New Orleans, 1862 26 Aug 2013 | 06:52 pm
Charles Barnard to wife, New Orleans, 1862 Writing to his wife, Margaret in Bucksport, Capt. Charles Barnard, commanding Co. A of the 14th Maine Infantry, told her not to be alarmed that the letterhe...
