The 20th Maine, one of the most storied regiments of the Civil War, reunited at Gettysburg in October 1889 and posed for...
Brig. Gen. Joshua Chamberlain was selected by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to accept Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House....
On April 4, 1820, a southern gentleman named Henry Putnam wrote a long letter describing Brunswick, Maine, to a friend back home...
Did Harriet Beecher Stowe really start the Civil War in 1852? Probably not. But she did force people to think about the...
As Sophia Peabody approached her 30th year, she wrote a letter to her sister saying, “I never intend to have a husband.”...