Maine Living History Association

10/17/2026

A 12th Maine Infantry soldier describes the battle of Third Wi******er (part 2)

The battle of Cedar Creek took place near Middletown in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley on October 19, 1864. Among the Union regiments fighting there was the 12th Maine Infantry. (Vermont State …

10/16/2026

Autumn foliage on Virginia battlefields peaks later than in Maine. Enjoy this short video!

Discover the autumn foliage that abounds at the Civil War battlefie...

10/07/2026

As the anniversary of Cedar Creek approaches, we go along with a Mainer soldier who fought there ...

10/05/2026

A monument in Aroostook County honors the veterans of four towns. Enjoy this short video!

Four rural Maine towns collectively honored their veterans by inscr...

10/03/2026

If you like about Mainers in the Civil War, this post will connect you with Maine at War's August stories!

During September, Maine at War readers met some bad cats guarded by the 13th Maine in Louisiana, marched along with a newly enlisted newspaper editor as he crossed Antietam just three days after the battle, and felt the sorrow a Maine widow encountered as she transported her dead son through Massach...

09/30/2026

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While a nurse tries to feed a sick or wounded Union soldier (background), two women tend a bandaged soldier lying on his bed. The women could be nurses or the soldier’s relatives. Nurse Harri…

09/28/2026

The town of Hodgdon in Aroostook County honors its veterans by name on a modern memorial. Enjoy this short video!

The modern veterans’ memorial monument in Hodgdon in Aroostook Coun...

09/23/2026

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A nurse either writes a letter for a sick Union soldier or records health information while he recovers in an army hospital. Note the gesture the soldier makes with his right forefinger and thumb; …

09/22/2026

A perfect September day at Marshall Point Light: enjoy this short video!

A gentle sea and a warm sun greet visitors on a perfect late summer...

09/16/2026

A newspaper publisher from Gardiner writes about Antietam ...

Alvan Milton Caldwell Heath published the Gardiner Home Journal in the early 1860s. The weekly’s August 7, 1862 issue was the next-to-the-last issue in which the married Heath was not in unif…