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  • Subject starts with "United States -- History"

COLL 169: Adjutant General Certificates

Finding Aid / In-house Use Only

Collection of seven certificates (plus one photocopied certificate) issued by the State of Maine, Office of the Adjutant General, for Bethel area people who served in the Civil War.

Collection: Finding Aids

COLL 177: Willard Ames Papers

Finding Aid / In-house Use Only

Collection of photocopied letters and documents relating to Willard Ames of Greenwood, Maine. Includes Civil War letters from his son, Willard O. Ames, who later died during the war.

Collection: Finding Aids

COLL 63: Jay S. Hoar Video Collection

Finding Aid / In-house Use Only

VHS tapes and DVDs collected by Jay S. Hoar, a professor of English at the University of Maine at Farmington and a Civil War biographer. The collection is a mixture of home videos, classroom lectures, speaking events, and television appearances by…

Collection: Finding Aids

COLL 65: Jay S. Hoar Sunset and Dusk Collection

Finding Aid / In-house Use Only

Large collection of research files on individual Civil War soldiers compiled by Jay S. Hoar for his trilogy "Sunset and Dusk of the Blue and the Gray."

Collection: Finding Aids

COLL 78: Roberta C. Pevear Collection

Finding Aid / In-house Use Only

A large collection of letters, letter transcriptions, photographs, family-related artifacts, a diary, and genealogy notebooks received from Roberta C. Pevear. Many of the letters contain important historical information about the Civil War.

Collection: Finding Aids

COLL 82: Lapham Family Collection

Finding Aid / In-house Use Only

Collection of photographs, papers, and artifacts pertaining to the Lapham family. Many of the items are related to the Civil War and a few items are related to local historian William Berry Lapham.

Collection: Finding Aids

DAR patriot index

Book / In-house Use Only

Collection: Books and Pamphlets

DAR patriot index

Book / In-house Use Only

CONTENTS: pt. 1. A-F -- pt. 2. G-O -- pt. 3. P-Z.

Collection: Books and Pamphlets

Death of Gen. Clark S. Edwards

Text / Available Online

DEATH OF GEN. CLARK S. EDWARDS An Honored Citizen—A Distinguished Soldier—A Noble Hero and Patriot has gone to his rest. Passed quietly away at his home last Sunday Evening, at 8.45 o’clock, after an illness of but a few days. A hero and patriot…

Echoes from the Sixties [Part 1]

Text / Available Online

ECHOES FROM THE SIXTIES. Official Report of One of the Most Bloody Conflicts of the Civil War. The following is the official report of the Fifth Maine at Fredericksburg, as given by Col. Edwards to General John L. Hodsdon.It has not been revised…

Echoes from the Sixties [Part 2]

Text / Available Online

ECHOES FROM THE SIXTIES. Official Report of One of the Most Bloody Conflicts of the Civil War. [Continued from last week.] Soon the shouts of the enemy immediately in our front, warned us that they were advancing, and every man stood ready to…

Echoes from the Sixties [Part 3]

Text / Available Online

ECHOES FROM THE SIXTIES. By Col. C. S. Edwards. Bethel, May 3, 1900. Thirty-seven years ago this day, was fought the great battle of Chancellorsville, commanded by Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, who at that time was commander of the Potomac Army. We…

Ethan Allen and his kin : correspondence, 1772-1819 / edited by John J. Duffy ... [and others]

Book / In-house Use Only

This two-volume collection of letters by and to Ethan, Ira, and Levi Allen and their kin not only relates the accomplishments and eccentricities of a family whose name is synonymous with colonial Vermont, but also recaptures a fifty-year span of…

Collection: Books and Pamphlets

First century of national existence; the United States as they were and are ... / by an eminent corps of scientific and literary men ... illustrated with over two hundred and twenty-five engravings ...

Book / In-house Use Only

Contents: Mining industry, fur trade [etc.] by J.T. Hodge.--Land, internal trade; Banks [etc.]; Emigration; Authors, books [etc.] by T.P. Kettell.--Social and domestic life, by F.B. Perkins.--Arts of design, by T.A. Richards.--Religious denominations…

Collection: Books and Pamphlets

History of the United States : from the earliest discovery of America to the present time / by E. Benjamin Andrews

Book / In-house Use Only

CONTENTS: 1.America before Columbus. 1492-1763.--2.1763-1814.-- 3.1814-1868.--4.1868-1888.--5.1888-1913.--6.1914-1926

Collection: Books and Pamphlets