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Piscataquis County

Type: OBJECT
Collection: Data Sheets

From Louise Daily, December 5, 1940

Type: OBJECT
Collection: Documentation

1913 Gettysburg Reunion

In February of 1913, the Maine Legislature passed a Resolve appropriating $18,000 for Maine's participation in the exercises commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. For all veterans who were residents of Maine, the State would provide free round trip transportation and from Gettysburg, accommodations, and medical care. To qualify, the soldier had to have fought in the battle. Other Civil War veterans could attend, but they had to pay for their own transportation and accommodations. In order to locate Gettysburg survivors, the Adjutant General canvassed all Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Posts, Regimental Associations, and inserted notices in the newspapers. By April of 1913, they had located more than 500 veterans of the battle, including two Confederates. The name of a veteran on this list does not mean he went to the reunion or that the State paid his way, only that they were located.

16th Maine Regiment

424 Objects

Maine Volunteer Militia (Post-Civil War)

Correspondence and other records of Maine’s militia in the years after the Civil War. Much of the collection includes requests for aid in obtaining veteran pensions.

174 Objects

Maine Constitutional Convention

After a vote was held in July 1819, the Act of Separation was approved. Subsequently, a constitutional convention took place in Portland, starting on October 11, 1819. Delegates from across the state gathered in Portland to work on the new Constitution, which was completed later that month. Once the draft was approved by the delegates, it required a vote from the people of Maine. In December, the citizens of Maine approved the Constitution.