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Civil War Veterans of Biddeford, 1916
McArthur Public Library
Reality dawned on the citizens of Biddeford and Saco as soldiers returned home. But truth struck the family members and friends of those who would not return home.
By the year 1866, the majority of Biddeford were mourning loved ones who scarified their lives for the war. An article posted on January 6th, 1866 by the Union and Journal said, “It is true that there is a skeleton in every house, it may also be true that there is one in every heart; and God help and tenderly pity them who cannot lock the unwelcome visitor in some who cannot lock the unwelcome visitor in some remote recess, but at whose musings the sorrowing shadow will unbidden come.”