Tag Archives: Mount Hope Cemetery

Echoes of Shiloh and Maine

Tomorrow, April 6, marks 161 years since Confederate Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston pitched into Union Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant in the scrub woods surrounding a rural Tennessee church named “Shiloh.” Named for that church, the two-day battle caused a shocking 23,000-plus casualties, with the hard-up-for-men South losing a bit more than 13,000 soldiers, including the […]

The Soldierly Monument, Part 4

Stephen Decatur Carpenter had been dead 5½ months and in his grave some four months when Bangor residents dedicated the monument erected initially to honor him — and ultimately all of the Queen City’s war dead. And the thousands of people who gathered to honor all their heroes saw the war come home that particular […]

The soldierly monument, Part 3

With the body of slain Army Maj. Stephen Decatur Carpenter finally arriving home in Bangor, local officials wondered what could be done to honor their hero. On Saturday evening, February 7, 1862 the Bangor City Council met in special session to resolve “that the Mayor and Two Aldermen … be a committee to procure a […]

Mount Hope Cemetery walking tour will launch Civil War weekend in Bangor

A Civil War walking tour of Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor will kick off Drums on the Penobscot: A Civil War Experience, slated to be held Friday-Sunday, July 28-30 in Bangor. Led by historian Ryan Hews and titled Soldiers at Rest, the Civil War walking tour will begin at 6 p.m., Friday, July 28. Visitors […]