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Belfast’s last Civil War veteran finally returned home in june 2011

April 9, 2012the Civil War during its sesquicentennialAnny Faunce, Arbella Johnson, Armory Square Hospital, Augusta Quimby, Belfast, Belfast Civil War Soldiers' Quilt, Belfast Historical Society, Carrie Abbott, Carrie White, Cary Williamson, Civil War Soldiers' Quilt, Eliza Ritchie, Ella Wheeler, Ellen Hazeltine, Emma Abbott, Emma Washburn, Fannie Howard, Isa White, James Frederick, Ladies' Volunteer Aid Society, Maggie Hazeltine, Maine Augusta S. Quimby, Marianne Furber, Mary Alden, Mary Baker Eddy, Mary Conner, Mary Field, Mary Palfrey, Megan Pinette, Nehemiah Abbott House, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, quilt, Rebecca Palfrey, Republican Journal, Sophia Jones, Susan Bean, Susanna Haraden Quimby, U.S. Grant, Ulysses Simpson Grant
By Brian Swartz

On Flag Day 2011, Susan and I traveled to Belfast to meet a bonafide Civil War veteran, the city’s last, that had arrived home from the war only a few months earlier. And if cloth could only talk, what a tale this veteran could tell. The veteran is a quilt, specifically the Belfast Civil War […]

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Brian Swartz

Brian Swartz

Welcome to "Maine at War," the blog about the roles played by Maine and her sons and daughters in the Civil War. I am a Civil War buff and a newspaper editor recently retired from the Bangor Daily News. Maine sent hero upon hero — soldiers, nurses, sailors, chaplains, physicians — south to preserve their country in the 1860s. “Maine at War” introduces these heroes and heroines, who, for the most part, upheld the state's honor during that terrible conflict. We tour the battlefields where they fought, and we learn about the Civil War by focusing on Maine’s involvement with it. Be prepared: As I discover to this very day, the facts taught in American classrooms don’t always jibe with Civil War reality. I can be reached at visionsofmaine@tds.net.

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